Magnets in Tanks, Safe?

Hugh Mann · Jul 30, 2020

I'm trying to grow gsp across the entire back glass of my aquarium, and I figured a good way to make it go faster would be to glue a chunk onto a magnet, place it on the glass until the gsp grows and attaches to the glass, cut then move and repeat.

However, I am unsure if magnets are safe to put in our aquariums, so is it safe or not?

If not, any ideas or suggestions how I may accomplish this? Encase the magnet in silicone maybe?

laverda · Jul 30, 2020

Bare magnets are unsafe. You can by then already encased. Encased magnets fail even from the best of companies so they should be checked every few months.

Hugh Mann · Jul 31, 2020

Awesome, thank you very much. I figured that would be the case.

cesar6261 · Jul 31, 2020

You can glue GSP to just about anything I directly glued it to my over flow

Hugh Mann · Jul 31, 2020

My idea was to use the frag on the magnet to easily move it around, cutting off frags as it grows onto the glass, helping it spread much faster.

bluprntguy · Jul 31, 2020

Hugh Mann said:
My idea was to use the frag on the magnet to easily move it around, cutting off frags as it grows onto the glass, helping it spread much faster.

It would be faster to just frag the GSP into small pieces and superglue it to your glass.

vtecintegra · Jul 31, 2020

Type "aquarium magnet" in amazon. There are all kinds of epoxy coated magnets and mini algae cleaning magnets that would work.

Hugh Mann · Jul 31, 2020

It's pretty small right now, 2"x2" on a disc. I'm just dipping my toes into the vastness that is corals, so I don't really know how much abuse gsp can take. By which I mean scraping it off the plug, chopping it up and gluing it.

bluprntguy · Jul 31, 2020

Hugh Mann said:
It's pretty small right now, 2"x2" on a disc. I'm just dipping my toes into the vastness that is corals, so I don't really know how much abuse gsp can take. By which I mean scraping it off the plug, chopping it up and gluing it.

GSP is pretty impossible to kill.