How to clean acrylic?

[Justin James]

I have a beautyfull 150 gallon Tenecor acrylic tank and I really don't want it to get scratched from cleaning. What do the rest of you do that have acrylic tanks when it comes to cleaning? I currently use a Algae Free Hammerhead Float Cleaning Magnet
http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/store_pages/details/cleaning.php?product_ID=cl-mre02f
with the acrylic safe pads on it but there still seems to be small scratches accumulating at time goes on.

Anyone have some advise?

 

[Hop]

And they will. Little scratches are inevitable.

Get a good micromesh kit. There are also magnetic kits that you can run and buff out scratches every so often

But I use a tigershark I think, magnet cleaner, a couple kent acrylic scrapers and then some acrylic pieces I made for scraping coraline.

Many nice acrylic tank keeps obviosuly tryo to keep scratches out. What they don't tell you is that a couple times a year, they donate time to buffing them out. steve weast and oregonreef.com come to mind.

 

[Justin James]

So what is the best to buff the scratches out? I got some scratch remover with the tank from tenecor but never opened th packages yet. I was saving them until it got to the point where I really needed them.

 

[Hop]

I like the micomesh for when it's full. When it's empty or on the outside, I just use wet/dry sandpaper up to 2000 grit and then buff by hand with novus #2 scratch remover.