What does everyone do with all their electrical

[Trevnc1]

I'm wondering what everyone does with all of their electrical equipment. I was thinking of building a cabinet beside the tank to house my controller and all of my plugins, I see a lot of people mounting these things under the stand with the sump. Is this a good idea with all the moisture/salt?

[Cheapreef]

I built a separate 5" cubby on one end of my stand.

[Vinny Kreyling]

I prefer outside the cabinet so I put a board on the wall next to the tank.

[Trevnc1]

Originally Posted by Cheapreef

I built a separate 5" cubby on one end of my stand.

I may be stealing this idea! I like it you have any more pics? I may also have a couple questions about that apex lol

[heritage]

I used a bathroom cabinet, painted it black mounted it to the side of the stand and mounted all of the controls inside except for the apex display. That was mounted on the side of the cabinet facing out so I can see it.

[Chaddiusmaximus]

My setup is a 72 gal peninsule. I have my Apex mounted above the sump on the stand fraim (its 2"x6"'s). One power strip, on the wall end, to feed lights and giyo pumps and one in the center to run other stuff. Most cords have drip loops but I'm in CO. so the reef tank is just an overpriced humidifier.

If the stand is tall enough I'd go under tank.

[spsfreak1977]

In the sump room

[homer1475]

All my gear and apex is mounted on the back of my stand. Well away from water, and humidity, but close enough to still be practical.

[adam1103]

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[adam1103]

Looks a little different now. Way more equipment in it, lol!


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[Lsufan]

I built a cabinet that sits next to the stand. It also holds my ato container & gives me a place to put all the other things like food, additives & cleaning equipment. So under my tank stand is pretty empty other then the sump & reactors which take up most of the space under the stand

[AdamSabina]

I made a video shows what I did and why. Shows my electrical couple times. One at 13:05. First half of video is electrical safety second half is how to make it look nice.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AoscDIqmSFw/maxresdefault.jpg

Aquarium electrical safety and cable management https://youtu.be/AoscDIqmSFw


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[Vinny Kreyling]

Nice Job Adam.

[RobbyG]

My equipment is in a cabinet on the opposite side of the wall behind my aquarium.
No salt air can get to it and it has an 80mm DC fan pulling out all the hot air.

If I could give only one piece of advice to people planning equipment cabinets, it’s to make sure you build them at least two or three times bigger than what you think you will need! As the years pass the equipment levels grow and what started out as a spacious enclose becomes an overloaded mess.

[five.five-six]

Originally Posted by Trevnc1

I see a lot of people mounting these things under the stand with the sump. Is this a good idea with all the moisture/salt?

No.

Here’s what I did some time back:

In the first photo, you can see 2 2” PVC pipes I ran through the wall, the other side is my 225 peninsula. My wife was kind enough to give me the bottom of this linen closet, but use your imagination, be creative!

Originally Posted by five.five-six

Fixed this mess today



First I setup a rio 2500 for a return pump and some temp heaters, I knew this was going to take a while.

Then I laid all the equipment out on the backer board and marked out where the holes needed to go.



After that I cut the holes, broke all the edges with sand paper and painted the board and upholstered the front of the board.



Next I mounted app the equipment to the front of the board.




power supplies were velcro attached to the back of the board.




Made all the connections.




Then secured the board with screws to blocks that I had mounted inside the cabinet earlier.




There's still some touchup left but it's just about there.


Next project is to skin the stand.

[Spaced Cowboy]

So I built my tank into the wall, but the house is *very* limited in space, so there's very little room behind the tank for a fish room. Organization is key to things not getting out of hand.

This is what the tank currently looks like from the front



so it's nice, clean, nothing whatsoever on the wall other than the tank to draw the eye. Behind, though, it looks like (looking left and right down the 2' corridor behind the tank):



So as you can see, I'm heavily invested in wiring raceways Even under the tank, it's all organised so I try to keep all the wires neat and tidy ...

[AdamSabina]

Originally Posted by Vinny Kreyling

Nice Job Adam.

Thank you


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[cody6766]

I've done a little of everything here.

My current set up has all of the tank water isolated inside the stand. It's up against a coat closet which houses my DJ powerstrip, controller, ATO reservoir, and dosing pump/reservoir. The cords from the tank and the ATO line just pass through the wall.

I ran the same tank with the same DJ powerstrip and controller mounted inside the stand it's sitting on at a different house. I had to build a box to hold the ATO bucket so it didn't look terrible, but that was it. I made it a point to wipe the salt off from time to time, and to keep the power strips as far away from the skimmer as possible. It was still pretty close since I only had a 24x24" stand to work with.

I've had several other tanks over the years and have had some mix of in/out of stand equipment. Just think about what you're adding, salt spray, and a cleaning routine if it's in the stand. You should be fine if you plan ahead.

[edkhutch]

ADAM: best use of a DSX can I have seen in 15 years!

[Ruu]

It’s not the neatest that it’s looked after 4 years, but I had nowhere to hide anything, so I had to pretty it up a little in plain sight. I stained, trimmed (to match the stand) and holesawed through a piece of wood, and then offset it from the wall to hide a huge number of wires. Turned out kind of ok.

Dave