{"id":915004,"date":"2026-06-23T21:14:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/the-best-pc-desk-setup-ive-seen-this-year-is-also-a-working-aquarium\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:14:54","slug":"the-best-pc-desk-setup-ive-seen-this-year-is-also-a-working-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/the-best-pc-desk-setup-ive-seen-this-year-is-also-a-working-aquarium\/","title":{"rendered":"The best PC desk setup I\u2019ve seen this year is also a working aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PCWorld highlights a YouTube creator\u2019s innovative desk setup that combines a custom-built aquarium with a dual-monitor standing workstation.<\/li>\n
The trapezoidal tank features a complete ecosystem with fish, crabs, snails, and algae, positioned under monitors with motorized height adjustment.<\/li>\n
This unique design showcases advanced integration of aquarium-keeping with PC hardware, including coordinated lighting that matches Windows 11\u2019s eye strain features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
I love a good desktop PC setup\u2014yeah, I\u2019m creepin\u2019 on you, Battlestations subreddit<\/a>. Mine is about halfway between \u201cprofessional\u201d (with wood accents and sound-absorbing panels) and \u201c9 years old\u201d (with toy spaceships and dinosaurs). But a YouTube creator wins the internet for today, creating an amazing and functional aquarium with real fish and other critters, all sitting under his monitors.<\/p>\n
The first step is, of course, the tank. Using custom-cut acrylic panels, he made a tank to fit the trapezoidal space, going far behind the monitors to account for the shallow sides. He even elevated it by a few millimeters to make room for routing a wired keyboard and mouse, earning some bonus points from the PC gaming crowd. The whole setup moves up and down with the motorized desk, and even the lights adjust to amber in the evenings to match Windows 11\u2019s built-in eye strain tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Actually filling the tank needed some serious expertise and no small amount of artistry, starting with the base layer of soil for the aquatic plants, then sand and rocks to make a \u201criverbed.\u201d Over a couple of months, the creator added life, including fish, crabs, snails, and cultivated algae, carefully balancing the tiny ecosystem while he watched it underneath his monitors. The end result is a gorgeous, captivating environment just inches away from some nice PC hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, just give the whole video a watch. I\u2019m blown away by the different and wide-ranging bits of expertise on display. Not only is \u201ctanks for nothin\u201d an expert in all things aquarium, he\u2019s made amazingly good use of the space at his dual-monitor standing desk (enabled by some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2000722\/best-monitor-arms.html\">well-placed VESA monitor arms<\/a>). He\u2019s also an excellent videographer and editor, where showing off his finished tank and underwater tenants feels like a mini nature documentary.<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/div>\n<div data-ga=\"article-footer-author\">\n<h3>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/author\/mcrider\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n\t\tAuthor: Michael Crider<\/a>, Staff Writer, PCWorld\t\t<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/author_photo_Michael-Crider_1738297314-66.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=150&h=150&crop=1\" height=\"125\" width=\"125\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Michael is a 15-year veteran of technology journalism, covering everything from Apple to ZTE. On PCWorld he’s the resident keyboard nut, always using a new one for a review and building a new mechanical board or expanding his desktop “battlestation” in his off hours. Michael’s previous bylines include Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek, and he’s covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live. Michael lives in Pennsylvania where he’s always looking forward to his next kayaking trip.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3131930\/the-best-pc-desk-setup-ive-seen-this-year-is-also-a-working-aquarium.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld highlights a YouTube creator\u2019s innovative desk setup that combines a custom-built aquarium with a dual-monitor standing workstation. The trapezoidal tank features a complete ecosystem with fish, crabs, snails, and algae, positioned under monitors with motorized height adjustment. This unique design showcases advanced integration of aquarium-keeping with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":915005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29696,27086,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ive","category-setup","category-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}