Please help w/ cabinet door ideas

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I'm finally getting around to setting this tank up but I need some help figuring out a way to attach a door/doors to the front of the stand. Looking for something super simple and preferably something that doesn't require a beam in the middle of the opening. Here's my issue, it needs to be somewhat kid safe.
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I was thinking about something like a single door attached by magnets that I could pull off in one piece, but I'm not sure how I could secure it. I've heard of different magnet locks but and I was thinking about putting a couple regular magnets in the door to support it and adding 2-4 magnetic locks to secure it.

Any one done something similar and have pictures of it, or any other input?

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I made conventional paneled doors but attached them by putting two dowels in the base of the door frame that aligned with slightly over-sized holes in the face frame.

Dowel in Base of door:

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Looking down the back of the door as it is being aligned with the holes in the face frame:

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What held the door in place was a Neodymium Magnet that were counter sunk into the door frame on the top frame that aligned with a second neodymium magnet in a little rabbit ear I also built.

Making the rabbit ears.....I cut little pieces of wood that were drilled with a Forstner bit. The magnets were epoxy glued into the holes and the wood was cut and shaped, and they just-so-happened to look like Mickey Mouse ears.

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Here's the door going into place:

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