Ok, so I'm not sure if you have heard of them, or seen them or played with them, I haven't seen much going around about them. As soon as Jake from reef builders told me about them I was pretty intrigued. I finally got my hands on a couple today and OMG these things are incredible. The blast through algae and light coraline with very little to know effort. If you strap on the metal blade they absolutely erase very hard old coraline algae like its fresh. Very little effort required to use these things, and my god are these magnets strong. I picked up a long and a nano today. I am using them on glass, and not acrylic. If you have an acrylic tank I cant really speak on them, as I know there have been a couple issues, Tunze states that you need to run the small plastic blades and not the long fiberglass blades for acrylic. But I can tell you for glass, these things are incredible and surprisingly well priced. I will end my rant here lol
Tunze care magnet
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LiquidCache
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Tunze care magnet
I have used mine with the long blades and the scraper on my 120 starphire, and with the small acrylic blades on my 30 gal acrylic tank with curved edges. Love this thing so much.
I have used mine with the long blades and the scraper on my 120 starphire, and with the small acrylic blades on my 30 gal acrylic tank with curved edges. Love this thing so much.
TheAquatect
I Could Stop If I Wanted
Any feedback on how it works with 1/2" thick glass? I notice its only spec'd to 3/8" and cant imagine 1/8" would make a big difference but you never know. 
Are you referring to the nano or the long? I don't know where they got their specs but 15mm does not match up with the advertised 1/2" but liquidcache had his going through a 2x4 I am currently using my long on 9/16 glass with no issuesAny feedback on how it works with 1/2" thick glass? I notice its only spec'd to 3/8" and cant imagine 1/8" would make a big difference but you never know.
TheAquatect
I Could Stop If I Wanted
I was refering to the long. Spec I saw was from Marine Depot
"Suitable for Glass thickness from 6mm (1/4") to 10mm (3/8")."
"Suitable for Glass thickness from 6mm (1/4") to 10mm (3/8")."
Yeah tunze has the spec for the long as 3/8 (10mm) - 1/2 (15mm) but again 1/2 is roughly 12mm. The nano magnet is spec'd at 6mm-10mm
The long, and strong come with the stainless blade. The nano does not .
The long comes with 2 short blades, 2 long blades and 1 stainless blade
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LiquidCache
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Yes that's a 2x2.
IM24TankTeam
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We have the nano and have loved it.
FishN00b83
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is this a new product? I've never heard of this! I'll be picking one up for sure...I'm always nervous about scratching the glass and this seems a lot less likely to do that.
ichthyman
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Thank you.
I have never used the flipper but I like the fact that the magnet doesn't contact the glass at all so there is no risk of anything getting trapped between the cleaning pad and the glass and causing scratches
Ahh good to know. The price tag always steered me away
