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09-08-2008, 07:33 PM
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Just a quick note of caution when using household products, (clothes, sponges,scrapers) even if they list as not having any anti-bacterial, anti mildew etc, there is always the chance that a batch could come into contact with these agents in the factory. I had finally achieved the perfect fish show tank about a year and a half ago and back then I was using a household brand of sponge that I had been using for over a year with no probs to clean it. The next day after cleaning the tank with a new sponge from that same company all my fish were dead. After that I learned to only buy my cleaning tools from the lfs.
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09-08-2008, 07:48 PM
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Can't see a reason to not use your hands, the lines are just air bubbles and foam residue. They will go away, but if you don't want to wait, get your hand in there with a old credit card or something. As you move forward with the tank, you're going to need something anyway, so today might be a good day for a magnet.
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Brad
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09-08-2008, 10:17 PM
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you can buy magfloats that are for acrylic just make sure its labeled acrylic, if it says nothing about acrylic its a glass one.
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09-08-2008, 10:27 PM
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http://www.jlaquatics.com/product/cl...ng+Magnet.html
http://www.jlaquatics.com/product/cl...22+x+6%22.html http://www.jlaquatics.com/product/CL...-+Acrylic.html
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#6
09-09-2008, 03:37 AM
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Mag-Floats scratch the heck out of glass and acrylic. I despise those stupid things...you get one little grain of sand in there, or coralline algae, or those little tube worms like to live on the freakin magnet, and you get a scratch! I still use mine on my 33g though...now that it's scratched to heck it doesn't matter!
 I prefer the Kent ProScrapers.
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09-09-2008, 03:59 AM
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you can avoid scratches by a mag-float by a) being careful not to come within an inch of the sand bed (use a credit card instead), b)covering the outside magnet (the one with the velvet cover rather than the bristles) with a cloth covering, c) not letting the feather dusters and coralline algae accumulate on the glass (be dilligent) and d) remove the mag-float from the tank after use. no guarantees though.
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