How messy are YOUR cables?

[PseudotropheusKenobi]

I was hooking up an air pump to my sump & when I looked at all my cables, I thought this might be a fun topic! Here’s mine, I think of them as organised chaos How are yours?

 

[fishnerd1111]

Mine are horrible it looks like gigantic tangled mess,and I honestly do not understand how I'm able to know what each cable is just by looking at it

 

[86 ssinit]

Ahh a tangled mess wire all over the place with on order and total chaos just proves you care about your fish . Now people who run their wires in all sorts of order so that units can be easily removed! These people are just crazy. Me now I’ve found a happy medium. I attach all wire to the top of the lower cabinet. Less to see. Crazy yes but not nuts!!

 

[OminousHoney]

One tank is pretty organized with the cords even going through that fancy hole in the tank stand!!

But the other has no rhyme or reason with cords going everywhere and two separate surge protectors on opposite sides of the tank.

Same size tanks just different cord "setups"!

 

[TClare]

Thanks to my son mine are neat, everything is wired to switches on the sides on of the cabinets.

 

[fishnerd1111]

Ahh a tangled mess wire all over the place with on order and total chaos just proves you care about your fish . Now people who run their wires in all sorts of order so that units can be easily removed! These people are just crazy. Me now I’ve found a happy medium. I attach all wire to the top of the lower cabinet. Less to see. Crazy yes but not nuts!!

totally agree

 

[fishywoo]

I try to organize what can be seen, know which cord is in which outlet, make sure there's enough slack to hang past the surge protector, tie o what I can, and hide the mess behind things.
^_^

 

[John58ford]

My large tank looks like Medusa and Spiderman had a love child under there, so did my old tank rack. My other two aren't bad but a certain amount of slack needed to be left in the cables so I have the freedom to swing my lights out of the way. They always start out nice and cable managed but as I adjust and replace things, the management always gets in the way. There used to be a thread here where we all showed messy pictures of what it looked like under our tanks but I can't seem to find it. Would love to see a revival of that thread and would post my self shame lol.

 

[kansas]

I made a small stop forward when I started labeling wires.

 

[Thunder_o_b]

Ahhhhhh, you don't want to know

 

[Fishfur]

Can I borrow him?

Thanks to my son mine are neat, everything is wired to switches on the sides on of the cabinets.

May I please borrow him? I promise to return him in good condition!

 

[86 ssinit]

Thanks to my son mine are neat, everything is wired to switches on the sides on of the cabinets.

There’s always one in the family

My large tank looks like Medusa and Spiderman had a love child under there, so did my old tank rack. My other two aren't bad but a certain amount of slack needed to be left in the cables so I have the freedom to swing my lights out of the way. They always start out nice and cable managed but as I adjust and replace things, the management always gets in the way. There used to be a thread here where we all showed messy pictures of what it looked like under our tanks but I can't seem to find it. Would love to see a revival of that thread and would post my self shame lol.

A true enthusiast!!! Shelf shame! This could and now should be that thread.

I made a small stop forward when I started labeling wires.

oh I think we may have to keep an eye on this one. Labeling wires? Ok it says heater! But for which tank?

 

[kansas]

There’s always one in the family

A true enthusiast!!! Shelf shame! This could and now should be that thread.

oh I think we may have to keep an eye on this one. Labeling wires? Ok it says heater! But for which tank?

I write it on the label.

 

[PseudotropheusKenobi]

There’s always one in the family

A true enthusiast!!! Shelf shame! This could and now should be that thread.

oh I think we may have to keep an eye on this one. Labeling wires? Ok it says heater! But for which tank?

Speaking of labels… Does it count if you label your smart plugs & then put them in order to correspond with the outlet?

 

[Fishfur]

Speaking of labels… Does it count if you label your smart plugs & then put them in order to correspond with the outlet?

That’s so organized it’s mildly terrifying .

Once upon a time in a room not all that far from here, I had all the heaters plugged into a power bar that I wrote Heaters on and all the filters plugged into another I wrote Filters on and one for Lights and one for accessories like wave pumps.

Once the number of tanks exceeded the number of available receptacles, it all went pear shaped rather quickly and has never been close to organized since.

 

[86 ssinit]

Speaking of labels… Does it count if you label your smart plugs & then put them in order to correspond with the outlet?

Wait you’ve got things on smart plugs! Each one of those is a different plug!
Ok we will need to watch this one!! But wait are the wires still all over the place?

 

[fishywoo]

Let's see more pictures! I happen to have this on my phone already when I was recently trying to figure out if I could add another tank down there before I stopped myself. That's all just one 40 gallon tank - 2 HOBs, 1 air pump, and light in order. The last outlet I use to plug the water pump into for WC.

The one behind my 10 gallon Betta tank looks much worse somehow. I'll get a picture of it later.

I'd love to see behind the stands in some of these fish rooms some of you guys have. How are you doing it? Lol

 

[86 ssinit]

Ok this is what you see when you open the doors
Don’t worry! I keep the doors closed

 

[cdr63corv]

I always try to keep them organized, somehow I end up in a hurry when moving stuff around and it never lasts very long. Then straighten it out and the cycle repeats

 

[fishywoo]

Ok this is what you see when you open the doors View attachment 892910
Don’t worry! I keep the doors closed View attachment 892914

Haha, that's what I would do. Nothing to see here!

 

[lc1958]

Hiding in plain sight!

 

[86 ssinit]

Hiding in plain sight!

Priceless!!

 

[fishywoo]

Now that I have my shrimp tank hooked up this is where I'm at. I'll figure it out eventually.
It's much easier to take a photo of it for now, lol.

I also found this link below, I think this was the thread others mentioned. I have yet to go through it and hopefully feel better about myself. Haha

Thread 'What does it look like under your stand?' What does it look like under your stand? | Freshwater Tank Equipment Forum

 

[StarGirl]

Now that I have my shrimp tank hooked up this is where I'm at. I'll figure it out eventually.
It's much easier to take a photo of it for now, lol.

I also found this link below, I think this was the thread others mentioned. I have yet to go through it and hopefully feel better about myself. Haha

Thread 'What does it look like under your stand?' What does it look like under your stand? | Freshwater Tank Equipment Forum

Dang good hunting! That was my thread and I couldnt find it......lol

 

[fishywoo]

Dang good hunting! That was my thread and I couldnt find it......lol

I found it while looking for this one, haha.

 

[John58ford]

Glad someone found the old thread! Guess this one's more specific to cables, and I don't use the equipment in posted last time so here's the spider web under my 125. I've thought about Velcro and cable tags (like my rack had) but as I've figured out, I always find reasons to have to un-do and redo them and it just adds more time to the basic work I need to do. There is more to this but the rest looks neat, it's a 4' long surge strip I mounted in the stand so at least it keeps the wires up off the bottom and out of the way.