Best Algae Scraper

[Gary Ellis]

What is the best magnetic algae scraper for a 69g glass aquarium?

 

[Water Dog]

Like everyone else who will soon chime in, I will recommend exactly what I use for my own tank, which is a Tunze Care Magnet Long. It works well on my 1/2” glass. Although it doesn’t float, I do like the fact that the way it’s designed, it makes it less likely that you will pick up grains of sand and scratch your glass. It also has replaceable metal blades that do a pretty good job on new spots of coralline algae.

 

[BigHildy53]

I like the Flipper Max Magnetic and the Algae Free Float Plus line.

Piranha Float Plus

Why does BRS recommend this? With properly sized magnets and now includes the scraper attachment, Algae Free has made one of the best algae scrapers in the industry. Most of their value is the fact all of them (except the Great White) do float if the connection through the aquarium is lost for...

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Flipper MAX Magnetic Cleaner

Compatible for glass or acrylic aquariums up to 1 inch. Flipper magnet cleaners allow you to fully clean your aquariums glass with just a single tool. The flippers ability to flip from the side with a scraper attachment for stuck on coralline, to the scrubber side with a soft pad for final...

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[ksed]

+1 on Algae Free . Very strong and it floats .
Can use different blades as well .

 

[Vette67]

Plus one more for Algae Free. I’ve had the hammerhead for 10+ years and love it. I wish the scraper had been available when I bought mine, but I have to go in manually with a razor to clean the coralline.

 

[Blue Spot Octopus]

Since hybrids are the hot items today, I use a Algae Free on the dry side the Tunze Care Scrapper on the wet side.

 

[ksed]

Since hybrids are the hot items today, I use a Algae Free on the dry side the Tunze Care Scrapper on the wet side.

Why not just get the blade on the Algae free