What's the BEST aquarium widget you have ever purchased?

[Vette67]

Best gadget I ever bought was the algae free magnet scraper. It works well, but the included scraper takes multiple passes to clean properly.

Hammerhead Float Plus

For Glass or Acrylic Aquariums 1/2" to 5/8" thick The Hammerhead is Algae Free’s most popular magnetic cleaner. It works great on almost all glass and acrylic tanks up to 5/8" thick. Glass aquariums holding up to 110 to 200 gallons Acrylic aquariums 48" long and 30" high Large 4" x 2" cleaning...

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Then I bought this razor blade attachment. Fantastic. Cleans coralline in one pass. After 20+ years of reaching in my tank with a straight razor, I actually don’t mind cleaning my glass. And I usually have coralline growing on my front glass within 2 weeks.

Easyblade Algae Scraper Attachment

Convert your Algae Free Float Plus cleaner into an algae scraping machine! The Easyblade Algae Scraper Attachment is compatible with all Algae Free Float Plus cleaners and will make cleaning the hardest of deposits, like coralline algae, a breeze. Just snap the attachment head into your Plus...

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[Bpage]

I built this to help hold the test tube while I tested everything and flip the test tubes over and they dry on the wood dowels. I also love my dripper I got tired of bending the tube on the store ones.

 

[Paulie069]

You know, that little aquarium widget that saved your life and you wish someone had told you about ten years ago.

Mine?

I used to dread changing out my RODI filter cartridges until this baby entered my life!

Game changer.

Like Ryan would say, Right tool. Right job.

Superb Wrench SW-2-SS-1

What's yours?

UV light best thing I bought for the tank runs 24-7

 

[Mono]

Hands down a disposable 10 mL syringe. Use for sucking out flatworms, sucking out bristle worms (it really works!), target feeding reefroids, measuring vibrant, sucking aiptasia to death (very relaxing), and dosing regale supplements like alk, phos, and Calc. Second would be my icecap phone lens so I can actually take pics of my tank!! Beautiful photos with it

It's funny, it took me few years in the hobby to figure how useful a syringe could be. So simple, so useful.

 

[Mono]

UV light best thing I bought for the tank runs 24-7

I know it sounds crazy but UV lights freak me out.

It's that old reefer quote that the goal of reefing is to bring as much electricity as you possibly can as close as you possibly can to a tank of saltwater.

I just look at that quartz tube every time I open the unit to clean the tube and think, man, that thing seems so delicate ,If it cracks...wow, that would be bad.

Now, I have an AQUA UV sitting on the shelf.

 

[Mono]

I built this to help hold the test tube while I tested everything and flip the test tubes over and they dry on the wood dowels. I also love my dripper I got tired of bending the tube on the store ones.

Dowels and towels are every reefers friend.

 

[Mono]

Call me crazy but I always keep a few chopsticks around.
1. Super cheap (usually free)
2. Super useful.

I use them to mix frozen food while it's defrosting. They are great poking tool to clean my skimmer intake tube on the venturi which seems to get clogged every few months. They can similarly helpful when cleaning pumps. I also use them to clean the grates of my overflow which cakes up with coraline.

They're just generally good for poking and prodding.

 

[West1]

Hands down, the best money I’ve spent.
Organized and looks nice!

 

[West1]

Not the best but it’s a nice budget dosing reservoir!
walked into a shop for some tea and seen these, 20.00 even each. I was about to buy 2 more aquamaxxx containers. I plan to top the Boba hole (massive straw hole) with plastic or a corkscrew and drill a hole through that for CA/dkh line.