Magnet cleaner for bottom of reefer...

[ReefRondo]

Hi Everybody!

Just wondering if any of you have ever used a magnet cleaner for cleaning the bottom glass of a reefer tank and if so which brand did you use? It will of course need to be strong enough to penetrate the base of the wooden stand, glass and foam padding and still have enough power to scrape coraline. I am running a bare bottom and put a lot of effort into lining the bottom of the tank with white vinyl to give optimum light reflection for the undersides of future corals so want to keep it as clean as possible. I have a floating reef scape which means using a traditional scraper really hard going. When it fills out with corals I think it would be almost impossible without damaging them using a normal scraper. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The strongest ones I can see in the UK are the aquamedic ones I think.

 

[vetteguy53081]

It’s generally not practical
Besides the awkward position, there is usually a brace on bottom or obstacles from stand making it difficult to cross over
If any black sand - may stick to magnet
Kent algae wand may be best bet

 

[ReefRondo]

There are no braces or any other obstacles so I think a strong enough magnet will do the job. A long handle scraper won’t work at all because of my scape as mentioned earlier. I am currently very carefully using the small tetra scraper but when the corals grow out that will be impossible. No problems with sand as mentioned earlier it is bare bottom.

 

[Projects with Sam]

Are there even products out there that do that? May not be able to safely separate the magnets if there is nothing in between them they'd need to be so powerful.

 

[ReefRondo]

I decided to order the Aqua Medic mega mag 2 and it works really well. Comes with a huge block of plastic as a separator that’s really well designed for storage when not in use.

 

[Projects with Sam]

Omg that thing is huge! I wish I had an aquarium with 1-1/3" glass.... swim with the sharks!