Mr. Saltwater Tank TV Friday Am Quick Tip #89: There’s Regular, Then There is Industrial Grade
Screws and bolts aren’t always feasible for mounting your saltwater tank equipment. When that’s the case, velcro can work if you follow this quick tip.
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Nice tip but prefer plastic straps
Never thought of that… certainly an excellent idea for running cable as you can just add and remove pumps etc. as required… 😀
Great tip… I like that a lot 🙂
a great tip.it look like your skimmer has some great skimmate going on. how many days of skimmate is that?
Cool tip! It’s good to be organized for all OCD intentions (:
I like it!
Haha Chris! You mean “how many hours”? Baawaawaawaa!
Good tip Mark. 🙂
Thanks Mark!
Chris…about 2 days.
Parag….the plastic straps are good for capturing cables, but get clunky when you want to hold onto controller boxes.
Good tip Mark…is that velcro holding up your gfo & carbon reactors?
Devin…I wish it was that strong! The GFO and Carbon reactor is mounted on a piece of wood that sits on steel rails under my tank.
I recently got the ES upgrade for for my MP40w units and it shipped with Velcro to mount the controllers. I was worried it might fall off so this industrial strength Velcro will be a life saver! Thanks Mark!!!
Check out Dual Lock from 3m, it’s a locking Velcro.
Same stuff I use for my undertank equipment, as well as a ton of other things around the house!
Drinking RO/DI in itself is not bad…relying on it entirely is deadly for a human or other pets..It’s sterile.. no minerals it can kill you to hydrate yourself in this way.
Hi Mark,
I understand that this is a different topic but i was dying to know what gear you have on your sexy tank. I know that you already have a hydor slim skim and tunze top off and an mp10 but what other gear do you have crammed behind the 34 gallon solana?
In your videos you mention that you run gfo, but what kind of reactor do you use? Is it a phosban combo reactor with gfo and carbon (which is a pain to take apart and refill)
Do you run a sump under the stand for more gear? I’m dying to know.
Huge fan of your work
Keep up the awesome videos!
Here’s a couple of similar “practical” ideas I stumbled across recently that have really helped me:
-use double stick foam tape all the way around to adhere your colored background (I prefer blue as think it looks more natural) to the back of the tank. This makes it stick super, is really easy to apply AND keeps any water from going between the background and the tank glass.
– I have a wooden cabinet my tank sits on and had some problems with getting water damage to the base wood. I took everything out and installed shower pan material (heavy duty gray vinyl sold by the roll at Home Depot/others & cheap) by just laying it in there, shaping the corners and hammering tacks around to keep it in place. Presto, waterproof bottom! Now it coud even hold several inches of water if I had a leak.
Thanks Mark, Better than using tie wraps! Good advise!
Mark,
I just noticed your return pump. What pump is it? how many GPH and is it powering anything else in your tank?