Do you have a workstation on/near your reef?

melev · Jun 17, 2014

When I have to work in my reef, I need a place to put things down. My tank is 7' long, 3' wide, and anything I put on the eurobracing ends up falling into the tank on accident. If I'm fragging stuff, I need a place to put some napkins, tweezers, glue, frag plugs, cutters, etc.

I few years ago I made this acrylic work surface with some 3/8" cast acrylic. It spans the tank and fits within the black trim, and is about 6" wide. I can use it to place a notepad and pencil when taking PAR measurements. I can place a coral or rock on it if there's some need to move things around. It can slide side to side to move out of my way as I work in other areas of the tank, and can be taken out of the way until next time. Today I used it while dosing Prodibio. It's easy to wipe clean, and takes up no space near the tank.

What do you use?

revhtree · Jun 17, 2014

Dude you rock! LOL!

melev · Jun 17, 2014

You found this thread already? :tongue:

AZDesertRat · Jun 18, 2014

When I built my stand I also wanted a place to store small equipment and the chiller I had at one time when I still used MH lighting so I built the small stand to the right of the tank to match. It has a drawer for test kits, refractometers and small stuff and a door in the bottom for the chiller or larger supplement jugs.

melev · Jun 18, 2014

That looks nice and clean. Nice to bump into you after all these years.

AZDesertRat · Jun 18, 2014

Good to hear from you also Marc! Hope things are well with you.

Squishie89 · Jun 18, 2014

My tank related stuff has pretty much taken over the dining room table (tank is in the dining room). It works out well because we have a plastic tablecloth to protect the table, and we very rarely use the table.