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Premiumaq · Dec 14, 2013

petemichelle · Mar 7, 2014

the spec say only 10mm glass. has anybody tried it with 1/2 glass, which is 12mm or 13mm? any luck?

Premiumaq · Mar 7, 2014

Great question...

Let me do a little investigating. I don't have any end-user notes on the Snail at all yet, so it may take me a day or two to find a few hobbyists who use one regularly.
If no one has tried thicker glass yet, I'll cajole someone into making a test out of it. One way or another, we'll find out if thicker glass is manageable.

I'll post back with updates as they arrive.

Thanks for your patience, and let me know if there's anything else I can do for you!

petemichelle · Mar 9, 2014

thanks a lot. i'm on the edge of my seat waiting.

Premiumaq · Mar 9, 2014

Found one user who has 13mm (as closely as he can measure) glass. He says that the daily cleaning function is no problem. Where he encountered difficulty was in areas with a significant coralline algae overgrowth. On thicker glass, heavy encrustations of coralline may be too dense to allow for a strong magnetic connection between the halves of the Snail. This ends up causing either a skipping/dragging motion in the best case, and a full separation of the halves followed by their falling in the worst case. He commented that a thorough initial cleaning of the glass surface prior to programming the Snail was absolutely necessary or the Snail would be near useless to him for this particular tank.

I am still scouting for more information. I'd like to hear from at least 2 more folks who have tried the Snail on thicker glass. Perhaps the quality of the glass has an effect as well. I know the user above has an older 150-long tank with leaded glass. Perhaps a low-lead or Starphire tank would be different.

I'll post more as it develops!

petemichelle · Mar 9, 2014

thanks for keeping up, I'll be waiting...

Premiumaq · Mar 15, 2014

Haven't found anyone else who has thicker glass. Seems like everyone looked closely at the recommended specs before buying their Snails! Naturally, that only happened because we needed the opposite to happen...

I'll keep my ears open for anyone who may turn up, but at this point the above-mentioned anecdotal evidence is all that I have for you.

Sorry that I haven't come up with more...
Let me know if you need anything else!
Josh - your Premium Aquatics liaison

petemichelle · Mar 16, 2014

thanks

Devonjevon · Jul 17, 2014

Any updates

Premiumaq · Jul 17, 2014

I haven't gotten any other responses when I asked for anyone else's experiences trying the Snail on thicker glass. It seems most folks with thick glass haven't purchased one. Sorry that there's not more out there.