Different things ya do to organize around the tank...

czieler · Oct 13, 2006

I thought this might be an interesting topic... was wondering what everyone did to stay organized w/ all of their tank related stuff...

For a long time I had a big mess under my tank...supplements,food, marcro algae boxes kept falling all over... so I fixed it by applying velcro strips to each of the bottles.... and then putting velcro strips on the inside of my cabinet door..and attaching all of the bottles there.

Now they all stay put... and if I empty them... I just get more and put it back in that bottle to keep using the one with the velcro.

ficklefins · Oct 13, 2006

Hey Czieler,

I hope you don't mind but I think your topic would be better housed in the "Other Reef Discussion". So I did a little organizing myself and placed it here.

BTW, I love the velcro idea. At one point in time I had a ton of eggcrate and I made some shelves behind my stand door. Worked well to hold food, test kits, and all kinds of random things.

czieler · Oct 13, 2006

No problem...I wasn't sure which forum to put it in... since its not really reef...but its not really other..heh.

Stixbaraca · Oct 13, 2006

Excellent topic czieler. I have been pondering it for a while since I am in the process of upgrading my lights, and adding 2 more ballasts to my stand. Since my stand llike many is just 2 doors in the front, and a single bottom shelf that everything is cluttered on, I am thinking about trying to make a shelf of some sort also.

czieler · Oct 13, 2006

I had tried to put small shelf type baskets to the doors and walls of the cabinet... but... the wood was so thin... any screws I could have used would have punctured both sides... heh..

Stixbaraca · Oct 13, 2006

I need to put something temporary in my stand. I really don't want to drill into it...it is one of those Oceanic Shaker collection stands. so many a wood shelf or something...I have to start thinking about it seriously...we are building the hood on Monday.

surfn · Oct 13, 2006

how bout some pics with all this talk?

also, if anyone is using any kind of dosers, like a LM3. i would like to see how you have your dosing station (LM3 or other doser, along with dosing bottles) set up. i was thinking about making a little station thingy to hold the LM3 right above the bottles so nothing can get knocked over and get messed up (like a feed line getting kinked up)

ficklefins · Oct 13, 2006

Stixbaraca said:
I need to put something temporary in my stand. I really don't want to drill into it...it is one of those Oceanic Shaker collection stands. so many a wood shelf or something...I have to start thinking about it seriously...we are building the hood on Monday.

Stix,

If you decide to go with the eggcrate shelf you can use super glue to glue it onto your wood. The best part about this is that if you don't like the look or if it breaks you can always sand off the super glue afterwards. BTW, I used hot glue at first, but super glue works much better.

Stixbaraca · Oct 13, 2006

I think that is what I will do. Did you do anything to the wood treatment wise incase it gets wet or moldy?

I will take before and after shots of under my stand also!

ficklefins · Oct 13, 2006

Stixbaraca said:
I think that is what I will do. Did you do anything to the wood treatment wise incase it gets wet or moldy?

I will take before and after shots of under my stand also!

Most of my stand's interior were painted white. But I think that if you go with natural wood on the outside you may have better results witht he glue. Pics would be great keep us updated.

BTW, I've been a lego kid so making something out of eggcrate was natural for me.

Stixbaraca · Oct 13, 2006

Oh...I though you used like 2x4s or something to make the shelf. I tried to make a brick sized stand out of all eggcrate with glue and zip ties as a stand for my skimmer...and failed miserably!!!

gflat65 · Oct 14, 2006

I used the clutter and the fact that the top off tub was visible to justify building a cabinet/stand between the big tanks and that justified a frag tank plumbed into the main tank

. All my clutter is now in the cabinet (along with ballasts, etc.).

240Zoa · Oct 14, 2006

wow thanx for the great ideas!!

jessiesgrrl · Oct 14, 2006

Stixbaraca said:
...we are building the hood on Monday.

Schweet!!!!!

Laurie

Walmart has a really nice vertical cabinet at the moment for $150, about 6 feet tall, maybe 2 feet wide or less... I think that is what I am going to use. Kris almost killed himself the other day tripping on the stairs over some tank stuff of mine the cat was batting around on the floor. I got the evil eye for it...!

Laurie

ficklefins · Oct 14, 2006

Kris after tripping on Laurie's reef junk

jessiesgrrl · Oct 14, 2006

LOL, yeah... That's about it! The amount of money/time that reefing takes up keeps him simmering, but the trip pushed him the rest of the way! It's cool, I made him his favorite supper... quick...!

Laurie