Acrylic Aquarium Care - How to clean?

[mr11]

What do all of you use to clean the outside of your acrylic tank? I bought some of those generic blue microfiber cloths from an auto parts store and the are scratching my tank. Any suggestions? I use a magic eraser for the inside.

 

[cromag27]

I use a soft, high quality terry cloth and rodi water.

 

[ReeferReefer]

Magic eraser and credit card on the inside, kitchen sponge on the outside

 

[TherealplexiG]

credit card on the inside

If you wanna scratch your tank!

Use materials that are softer then acrylic such as Teflon, make a teflon blade out of a small piece by beveling the edge on a belt sander.
Use it for inside, out side WET microfiber cloth.

 

[mr11]

Thanks for all the suggestions!

out side WET microfiber cloth.

Do you have a certain brand? The microfiber cloths I used scratched my tank.

 

[Macdaddynick1]

Thanks for all the suggestions!



Do you have a certain brand? The microfiber cloths I used scratched my tank.

I second that, I used micro fiber cloth and it scratched my tank also. However, I think it might have actually been the salt crystals on the outside that get trapped under the cloth . So you always have to rinse the towel you use in the RO water.
So far the only things that don't scratch my tank are basic white gift cards from places like Starbucks or Jamba Juice and the magic eraser

 

[TherealplexiG]

So you always have to rinse the towel you use in the RO water.

Thats what i meant by wetting it, many acrylic fabricators use this method while removing excess compound.

 

[mr11]

That might be true but I just used a brand new towel on a tank that has never seen salt or water and it scratched it.

 

[x_burt]

Following. Just bought an acrylic tank!

 

[cromag27]

That might be true but I just used a brand new towel on a tank that has never seen salt or water and it scratched it.

Towel was garbage or the acrylic is horrible quality. good news is, those scratches are probably minimal and you can polish them out.

 

[mr11]

Towel was garbage or the acrylic is horrible quality. good news is, those scratches are probably minimal and you can polish them out.

Hopefully it's the towel. I admit they were the cheaper ones I found. Acrylic is a newly manufactured custom tank so for my sanity I'm going to assume it's not the acrylic.

And yeah, it was just a small part of a corner of the tank I used as a test since I had a similar problem with my other tank, so no significant damage.