Best Product/Routine for cleaning acrylic

aninjaatemyshoe · 02/21/2007, 03:09 PM

What is the best thing to use for cleaning algae off an acrylic tank? I thought I was doing alright with my acrylic-safe scrubber, but I think it might be making faint scratches on the acrylic. Might be pressing too hard, but some of the algae is a real %&$# to clean off if you are using the light touch. I am completely off of the magnet cleaner because I always somehow get one grain of sand in it and make a scratch line. I was wondering about the plastic blade scrapers or if they make it a squeegee like scraper (one that has a rubber blade).

aninjaatemyshoe · 02/21/2007, 09:23 PM

bump

dattack · 02/21/2007, 09:27 PM

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Str8baller · 03/23/2007, 09:34 PM

A razor will take any algae or pretty much anything off of glass or acrylic. Run it down the side of the tank at a 45 degree angle (make sure you don't make any loud squeaking noises, from holding it 90 degrees) and you should be fine. Lol, the new guy at my lfs took 5years worth of coriline algae of the back of the tank in less than a minute.

aninjaatemyshoe · 03/23/2007, 11:04 PM

One of the guys that works at a local fish store (Salty Critter) uses the same technique on acrylic. It sounds risky, but I guess if you are careful it should work. I've been fairly successful with a plastic scraper lately. I don't use the scrub brushes anymore because you can't see when it picks up small bits of stuff.

02/21/2007, 03:09 PM	#1
aninjaatemyshoe Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Posts: 2,333	Best Product/Routine for cleaning acrylic What is the best thing to use for cleaning algae off an acrylic tank? I thought I was doing alright with my acrylic-safe scrubber, but I think it might be making faint scratches on the acrylic. Might be pressing too hard, but some of the algae is a real %&$# to clean off if you are using the light touch. I am completely off of the magnet cleaner because I always somehow get one grain of sand in it and make a scratch line. I was wondering about the plastic blade scrapers or if they make it a squeegee like scraper (one that has a rubber blade). __________________ You are not brought upon this world to "get it"

02/21/2007, 09:23 PM	#2
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03/23/2007, 11:04 PM	#5
aninjaatemyshoe Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Posts: 2,333	One of the guys that works at a local fish store (Salty Critter) uses the same technique on acrylic. It sounds risky, but I guess if you are careful it should work. I've been fairly successful with a plastic scraper lately. I don't use the scrub brushes anymore because you can't see when it picks up small bits of stuff. __________________ You are not brought upon this world to "get it"

02/21/2007, 09:27 PM	#3
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03/23/2007, 09:34 PM	#4
Str8baller Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: IL Posts: 124	A razor will take any algae or pretty much anything off of glass or acrylic. Run it down the side of the tank at a 45 degree angle (make sure you don't make any loud squeaking noises, from holding it 90 degrees) and you should be fine. Lol, the new guy at my lfs took 5years worth of coriline algae of the back of the tank in less than a minute.