I recently made an ADA style light bar for, well, peanuts.

I used conduit pipe, a pipe bender, a pipe cutter, some brackets.
All said, it ran about 40$, and I have enough material to make several more.

The light was cheap as well, much like the Aqua medic lights but about 150$ less(135$ ea with 10K bulb). The stand was made without a table saw, just a few cheesy cuts at Home Depot and some wood, that ran about 40$ at the end of the day for paint and construction ties/angles.

So I made a nice stand, light rail and light set up for about 220$.

This will serve from a 60 gallon cube to a 20 gallon tank.

ADA price:

Light: 480$
Rail: 180$
Stand, you don't want to know.

About 1000$ or more.

All in all, this was a pretty easy DIY project.
And I can make plenty more light rail bars for other folks as well as the 5 tanks I have.








Regards,
Tom Barr