Best way to clean glass

[kevin34]

what is the best way to clean the inside glass of an aquarium? My mag float gets most of the stuff but every once in a while I will come across a patch of stuff that just wont come off. Any tips?

 

[markeo99]

little plastic razor blade paint scrapers at hardware store or a razor blade

 

[tizzo]

Is your tank glass or acrylic?? Kent makes scapers for both. Plastic ones for acrylic tanks, or you can use a credit card, and metal ones for glass, or as mark mentioned, you can use a blade. Just be careful around the silicon.

 

[oneradtek]

at petsmart theres a cheap lil blue handled scraper, omg its the BEST!. for like 3 bucks, that is if you have a glass aquarium

 

[mr_x]

i use the magfloat regularly, and once in a while a blade style scraper to get the coralline and stuff that the mag missed.

 

[jmesmcm]

I use a magnavore daily and a wallpaper stripper when it gets really bad and to remove the coraline.

 

[wattsupdoc]

I rarely use my mag float any more. I don't like the idea of just knocking the little diatoms off the glass, just to blow around the tank and grow somewhere else. Instead i want to harvest them. I use paper towels, they work really good. Just slowly wipe the glass and throw them away as the get mucky. It usually takes about 4-5 to do my 135. Generally speaking now I just do this once a week. As compared to daily with the mag. For the more stubborn stuff a razor blade does the job well.

 

[shinobi9119]

Originally Posted by wattsupdoc
http:///forum/post/2727612
I rarely use my mag float any more. I don't like the idea of just knocking the little diatoms off the glass, just to blow around the tank and grow somewhere else. Instead i want to harvest them. I use paper towels, they work really good. Just slowly wipe the glass and throw them away as the get mucky. It usually takes about 4-5 to do my 135. Generally speaking now I just do this once a week. As compared to daily with the mag. For the more stubborn stuff a razor blade does the job well.
thats awesome, I never thuoght of paper towels, I usually use a card and a net to catch what flies off and its a major pain

 

[wattsupdoc]

Yeah, it works perfectly. The diatoms cling to the PT. Try it. You can shut down your flow some also, this will keep powerheads from blowing diatoms off the PT. Be generous with them also, they are cheap.

 

[kevin34]

I am not getting any diatom growth. Mostly hair algae. Most of it I can get off but sometimes there is like this green dirt that gets left on that glass that WONT come off. I will try the razor.