This is how to keep your glass spotless

[stingeragent]

This may have been mentioned before but I can't recall ever seeing it. If your having trouble keeping your glass free of algae, always having to take a metal scraper to get the stubborn green stuff off, this is what you do. Buy a magfloat, or something similar. Then run it over the glass once a day. Even if you don't see anything and it looks great do it anyway. You may think this is too time consuming but I can easily do the front glass (the only pane I care about) on my 6 ft tank in about 45 secs. Start at the top going horizontal, when you get to the other end drop it a bit lower, and just go back and forth like mowing a lawn. The key is you have to do it everyday. The moral of the story is, 45 seconds a day and you never have to worry about unsightly glass algae again. Thanks.

 

[heathlindner25]

I do the same...every day

 

[Greybeard]

'The Flipper'... for those of us who don't want to scrub every day.

 

[GimpyFin]

+1 for the flipper. Covers both blade and scrubber. Plus, it's not a brick like the magfloat or some of the others.

 

[BummersReef]

would this work for an acrylic tank??

 

[GimpyFin]

would this work for an acrylic tank??

The flipper does come with both plastic and metal blades depending on whether it's glass or acrylic.

 

[MondoBongo]

so the key to keeping your glass clean every day is to clean your glass every day?

did not see that one coming.

 

[GimpyFin]

so the key to keeping your glass clean every day is to clean your glass every day?

did not see that one coming.

:lolspin:

 

[CafeReef]

Tunze Care Magnet every day. I have yet to find anything it cannot go through on my glass and doesnt pickup gravel scratching my glass.

 

[SALTYwaterDOG]

:lolspin:

Haha:lolspin:

 

[JammyBirch]

so the key to keeping your glass clean every day is to clean your glass every day?

did not see that one coming.

lol...

 

[scuzy]

+1 on the tunze magnet. Love that thing.

 

[ecko1211]

any tips on how to clean the algae that's just above the sand? i have a magfloat and can only clean maybe a cm or two above the sand. i have a line of algae all around the bottom of my tank. thanks.

 

[scuzy]

use a tunze cleaner magnet with the blades. It's awesome i would get the strong model though.

 

[sil40sx]

any tips on how to clean the algae that's just above the sand? i have a magfloat and can only clean maybe a cm or two above the sand. i have a line of algae all around the bottom of my tank. thanks.

^^^ I'd say Flipper as well

 

[mcgyvr]

Are we starting a daily Captain Obvious post now?

Tomorrow topic.. To get great gas mileage in your car..... don't drive it..

 

[gone fishin]

Are we starting a daily Captain Obvious post now?

Tomorrow topic.. To get great gas mileage in your car..... don't drive it..

I love the Captain Obvious bits:lmao:

 

[MrsReefK]

+1 on the tunze magnet. Love that thing.

I bought the strong in hopes it'd work great on my 300g 3/4 acrylic. Unfortunately, it falls of, a lot! Being its non floating makes that a pain.

I do love it for going along the sand though, does a great job of not scratching the acrylic.

 

[JohnnyHildo]

any tips on how to clean the algae that's just above the sand? i have a magfloat and can only clean maybe a cm or two above the sand. i have a line of algae all around the bottom of my tank. thanks.

a fair amount of star astrea snails will cover that as mine seem to prefer both the waterline and the substrate line over the open glass.

 

[CStrickland]

I bought the strong in hopes it'd work great on my 300g 3/4 acrylic. Unfortunately, it falls of, a lot! Being its non floating makes that a pain.

Do people ever crazy glue bubblewrap, or some other floatations device to the wet side? It's pretty stupidly designed that it sinks. I switched over to a scraper when I upgraded to a tank with thicker glass because my mag didn't work, but it wasn't a fancy mag so it never worked that well anyway.

any tips on how to clean the algae that's just above the sand? i have a magfloat and can only clean maybe a cm or two above the sand. i have a line of algae all around the bottom of my tank. thanks.

I used to run an old library card around the bottom. If you hold it all the way down in the sand, and at the right angle (like a snowplow pushing everything away from the glass so new stuf comes in behind it), you will sort of stir up all the glass-adjacent sand and get rid of the cyano that grows there from how the glass reflects light back against the sand. Keeping the sand that's up against the glass clean and fresh makes the tank look profesh.