Rusty magnet on eshopps frag rack

[2peppers]

I bought an eshopps frag rack a few weeks ago. shortly after I started having some issues in my tank and lost 2 frags. During some maintenance yesterday I noticed one of the magnets on the wet side looked all funky. It looks like the magnet wasn't sealed and water was getting to it causing it to rust. Anyone else have issues with these things? I bought it brand new from a lfs so I really wasn't expecting this to be the source of my problems

 

[2peppers]

 

[Tigerdragon]

I would return it or contact eschopps

 

[organism]

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not seeing any rust...

 

[Tigerdragon]

From what i see the magnet def is not the right color

 

[2peppers]

Maybe corrosion is a better word to use. The other magnet is still it's normal shiny silver. This one however, was wet and the outside layer had curled up and peeled off and turned green.

 

[tvu]

I have the same frag rack and my magnets are dark red from rust.

 

[twon8]

Given that gfo is rust, I don't think that magnet is a source of a problem

 

[swhobbie1]

i have 3 of these in 1 of my tanks ... for afew months now. I just checked one of them and doesn't not look like any rust on it currently. maybe you got a defective one.

 

[Reef Frog]

Given that gfo is rust, I don't think that magnet is a source of a problem

That makes sense but I thought these new powerful magnets had other exotic elements in them too. Rare earth, neomydium bla bla. Maybe it's advertising hype but I'd rather not take the chance.

I have one. The outside magnets have a brittle plastic coating that chipped off early. The thing was subject to falling off the glass if I was careless with a mag float glass cleaner or turned up my MP40 pumps too high. I had to take it out of the tank or set it on the sand when doing maintenance. I got tired of dumping the frags all over the tank. So now it resides in box.

 

[2peppers]

Given that gfo is rust, I don't think that magnet is a source of a problem

Yes, gfo is granulated ferric oxide or iron oxide which essentially is rust. These magnets are not a pure chunck of iron. It's the other alloys used to create the magnet that can leach toxins into the system I am concerned about.

Also, iron doesn't instantaneously turn to ferric oxide in our tank. If it did, we would just use that instead of paying a lot more for purified gfo. Having raw iron in your system could leach Into the water and be absorbed by the corals and potentially cause heavy metal poisoning.