Show Me Your Equipment Cabinets

Dawsokj1988 · May 26, 2017

CoralKing24 said:
Nice stands. Wish I can build one.

you can!

Maxx · May 31, 2017

There are some very very nice equipment cabinets in here!

Centerline · May 31, 2017

There are some seriously OCD people here as well

Rakie · Jun 7, 2017

Here's my simple & small solution.

1) Buy small box from Ikea ($19)

2) Drill holes

3) Velcro stuff inside

4) Make plug pasta

5) Close box

johanngh1977 · Jun 7, 2017

FLSharkvictim · Jun 10, 2017

Everything is else all behind the panel!

Reef dog · Jun 19, 2017

Here is my 90 setup, didn't come out to bad

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theMerchant · Jun 20, 2017

You will need some fans for ventilation, very humid inside a stand with sump

Honeycombz · Jun 21, 2017

Arron209 said:
Here's mine:

How did You mount that false wall to the side of your cabinet? Surface to surface hinges? I am trying to do something very similar with my stand.

Arron209 · Jun 22, 2017

Honeycombz said:
How did You mount that false wall to the side of your cabinet? Surface to surface hinges? I am trying to do something very similar with my stand.

It's mounted with some corner braces that I had laying around. I think they were extras from a trip to Home Depot.

underdog493 · Jun 27, 2017

rmchoi said:
This is the cabinet of my 75 gallon mixed reef tank. The stand is 48" wide by 40" tall which is nice for viewing without having to lean over much. With the extra cabinet height, I made an equipment shelf above the sump. The controls are mounted on the doors, which swing open. Everything else hides behind the doors, mostly electrical cords.

I use to tie cords together nice and neat, until I found how difficult it was to remove a piece of equipment. Now its accessible, fast and easy to remove any item with the cords sitting loosely on the shelf.

It's a mess of cords, electrical outlets and transformers you don't have to look at, once the doors are closed.

If you don't like having to cut zipties I recomend getting a spool of double sided velcro. You just cut off a small piece for what you need and if you have to remove something its super simple and reusable.

Donovan Joannes · Jun 28, 2017

Going through the thread and realized my equipment is pathetic

. You guys rock!

Honeycombz · Jun 28, 2017

Arron209 said:
It's mounted with some corner braces that I had laying around. I think they were extras from a trip to Home Depot.

Thank you! I realized I have some laying Around from adding a shelf to my stand. Gonna make an acrylic false wall

revhtree · Jun 28, 2017

johanngh1977 said:

Killer job on this and great job to everyone else!

James LaFrance · Jul 2, 2017

I like what you've done here. I'm thinking of have a similar tank and this could work for me as well!

Honeycombz · Jul 3, 2017

Ok so I finally installed the acrylic false walls on the inside of my stand. Now all I need to do is instal some more lighting (blue&white LED) and do some cut outs on the top sheet of acrylic to mount my vortech driver. Hoping to mount some apex modules on there in the future as well.

Rakie · Jul 17, 2017

Some of you guys have some really imaginative setups. I keep it on the simple side myself, the more fancy i try to make it the less likely it is to hit the mark.

That said, @mdbannister has a great little board we setup. It's plain Jane for sure, but it's effective and and nice enough to be on display and not offend guests or wives. Of course, it needed to be done so badly almost anything would be an improvement :3

Rakie · Jul 17, 2017

Honeycombz said:
Ok so I finally installed the acrylic false walls on the inside of my stand. Now all I need to do is instal some more lighting (blue&white LED) and do some cut outs on the top sheet of acrylic to mount my vortech driver. Hoping to mount some apex modules on there in the future as well.

Hey that's pretty sharp. It looks clean enough to be oem.