HI Folks,
Brand new starfire glass tank up and running for a couple of months, bare bottom. This is my 10th aquarium over the years and I"m familiar with how scratches can happen but I'm perplexed with this situation. For cleaning, I use magic erasers for the easy stuff and a kent marine metal scraper for the harder stuff (blades changed regularly), always careful to only use enough pressure to remove the Coraline algae. I no longer use a magnet cleaner after I put a big scratch into one of my previous tanks because debris got trapped in the magnet.
What's unique about these scratches is they are tiny, 1-2 millimeters, I can feel them with a fingernail, on the waterside of the glass. I also noticed a small pit the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Past aquariums, when I got scratches they were big and long, not tiny ones like these.
Is it possible the glass is defective? Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Brand new starfire glass tank up and running for a couple of months, bare bottom. This is my 10th aquarium over the years and I"m familiar with how scratches can happen but I'm perplexed with this situation. For cleaning, I use magic erasers for the easy stuff and a kent marine metal scraper for the harder stuff (blades changed regularly), always careful to only use enough pressure to remove the Coraline algae. I no longer use a magnet cleaner after I put a big scratch into one of my previous tanks because debris got trapped in the magnet.
What's unique about these scratches is they are tiny, 1-2 millimeters, I can feel them with a fingernail, on the waterside of the glass. I also noticed a small pit the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Past aquariums, when I got scratches they were big and long, not tiny ones like these.
Is it possible the glass is defective? Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.