Your GO TO tools and TIPS for making it easier to keep your glass clean!

[Mikeht11]

+1 for Fritz Glass cleaner. Stuff works amazing!! Drips clean off without streaks!! Makes my mag float slide across the glass beautifully!!

Only down side to the fritz is the funky smell, But i can live with that. Crazy how slick the glass is after. It’s like waxing a car.

 

[Magellan]

I HAD NO CHOICE ON MY BIG TANK BUT TO GET THE " MIGHTY MAGNET " !!!
Very expensive BUT covers a wide area quickly and without scratching acrylic.

What would you recommend for a smaller acrylic tank? My mag float is Meh...at best. I have to put my hand in the tank with a credit card as a scraper if I want to get off the hard stuff.

 

[TheKyle]

Tunze strong care magnet is great and puts all of my different sized magfloats to shame. Recently set up a new tank and was reminded again how bad the mag floats were. So now I’m constantly moving the tunze magnet from tank to tank.

 

[vetteguy53081]

What would you recommend for a smaller acrylic tank? My mag float is Meh...at best. I have to put my hand in the tank with a credit card as a scraper if I want to get off the hard stuff.

WISH TUNZE STRONG HAD A TRUE ACRYLIC BLADE. I too pretty much have to do my drop off acrylic by hand. The only blade I trust would be the piranha float with acylic pad. works pretty good on a smaller tank

 

[Admann]

Flippers on all my tanks. One of my employees was in the office on a Saturday with his kids and the kids decided to clean the glass. Scratches everywhere. Dumped the old scrapers, scored some Flipper's and have yet to scratch anything. To clean with I use a squeegee with a little vinager if the glass is really dirty otherwise I just use water. About once every couple of months I'll clean the class with alcohol, shine it with a microfiber towel and the apply RainX. Works wonders.

I was wondering if anyone had caught on to Rain-X, water jumps off that stuff and makes the glass nice and slippery.

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

I have the great white. I can attest that you need to RESPECT those magnets. I was tired, wasnt paying attention and smashed my finger and my nail eventually fell off.

 

[KrisReef]

I have an acrylic tank so the "glass" never needs cleaning.

The snails do most of the work, and every couple of months I scrape out a porthole for viewing with a long-handled acrylic scraper, forgot the scrapers' name. I used to use credit cards and immersion cleaning but I gave up and now have a top-view tank only.

I have discovered that the water surface is generally easier to keep clean and coralline doesn't grow there like the viewing panes.

 

[Westside Guy]

Tunze strong care magnet is great and puts all of my different sized magfloats to shame. Recently set up a new tank and was reminded again how bad the mag floats were. So now I’m constantly moving the tunze magnet from tank to tank.

I also love my Tunze Care Magnet Long which is perfect for 1/2" glass.

 

[Jerzyray]

I tell ya the Fritz glass cleaner is awesome. yes its over priced Windex but it works very well and it makes my flipper glass cleaner slide over the glass so much easier.

Agreed!!

 

[ZoWhat]

 

[Jerzyray]

I rock the flipper for the in side and use the api glass cleaner for the outside It put a wax like finish on the glass so future finger prints and what not can be wiped clean with a dry paper towel. It lasts about a week

 

[VKP01]

I usually just use a toothbrush since I just have 4 gallons. Might not be ideal for a larger reef though lol.
ive used the flipper and magfloat on larger tanks, magfloat worked really good on my bowfront.

 

[Thaxxx]

NUFINISH® car polish for the outside glass.
Last awhile.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

If I don't clean the glass every day, it's green.

 

[H3rm1tCr@b]

Some sort of scraper on a stick. $15 bucks off of Amazon; does the job. I also have snails to clean the glass (I need to check out reefcleaners though because they've got some good ones).

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

I usually just use a toothbrush since I just have 4 gallons. Might not be ideal for a larger reef though lol.

I imagined cleaning my 300 with a toothbrush and my head literally exploded. Lol

 

[Quietman]

Tunze Care Magnet - got another one for my quarantine. Strong magnet, doesn't damage silicone seal, doesn't hold sand if you pick some up. It doesn't float true, but it's light enough that I can usually reattach from the magnet alone.

Plus got a long handled scraper for the tough stuff.

Outside I use the Tunze spray. But only because I liked the Care Magnet so much, I thought I'd try it, too. Only been a few weeks, but love it. Other DIY stuff I used didn't seem to last as long. Those in between touch ups that streak the glass....arrrggghhhh! Those don't seem to happen as much...purely anectdotal evidence of course...but it my anecdotal evidence so good enough for me.

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

I just scrape the inside glass. I can tell you all a really cheap and effective to clean the outside of your glass in most cases. Use a coffee filter! That is it.

 

[shermoen]

For my 14 bio cube I use a mag float nano so I can get the rounded edges. I will never own another aquarium with rounded or curved glass!! On my 20 long I have a flipper. And on my 3 gallon pico soon to be back up, I use a nimble super. Granted if I dont clean the glass frequently enough on the pico I will have to take a razor blade to it.

 

[jasonrusso]

Once a week in my fowler, twice a week in my reef. I think it is because the lights are more intense.