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07-29-2003, 07:21 AM
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Automotive Paint Nerd
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Livonia, MI
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Scraping your back glass?
Hey,
What do people use to clean their back glass? Mine has a good amount of algae on it (non-coralline), and I would like to clean it. Problem is: A) It is painted, (B) my canopy is impossible to remove on my own. I was looking into picking up either the 24 or 36" Kent Pro-Scraper. Anyone have any experience with this product? Or is there something else people use on their big tanks to clean those "hard to reach" places? BTW my tank is a 180.
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07-29-2003, 07:35 AM
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Keeper of the stick
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Farmington
Posts: 1,708
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Plastic Spatula
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07-29-2003, 08:19 AM
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Crazed Fish Whisperer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Kansas City, MO
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how many snails do you have?
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07-29-2003, 09:11 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Wilmington, NC
Posts: 168
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If you don't want to spend the $20 dollars on the scraper and you have a glass tank buy a window scraper with an angled handle and attach a dowl rod to it. Works great and cost about $3. Another bonus is that the razor blades in your scraper are cheap and easy to replace.
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07-29-2003, 09:21 AM
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Automotive Paint Nerd
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Livonia, MI
Posts: 603
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The thing is it is very hard to reach the back glass for me, so a plastic spatula would probably not do the trick. I don't mind plunking down $20 for the extended scraper if it actually does a decent job and doesnt just "brush" the back glass so to say. As far as snails go, that is another story (having snail issues I wont go into).
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07-29-2003, 09:28 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Georgia, near Atlanta
Posts: 822
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I have the Kent scrapper, does a good job. The one with the plastic blade does ok, but the one with the metal blade does better, particularly for coralline algae. |
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07-29-2003, 10:08 AM
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Summer's Daddy
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Lawrenceville, Ga in a van down by the river
Posts: 2,675
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My fave is the Kent Scraper with the metal removable blade and the plastic one. 6 bucks at petco.
Ray
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07-29-2003, 11:47 AM
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One Happy Member
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Fondy, Wisconsin
Posts: 874
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I don't scrape the back. I leave it for the snails. After two years, it is now covered with purple coraline algae and has a cool three dimensional look.
I only clean the three sides.
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07-29-2003, 12:04 PM
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Professional newbie!
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Waukesha, WI
Posts: 404
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Same here Homer,
I only clean the three sides, I figured I should leave a big area for the snails to graze on.
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07-29-2003, 12:56 PM
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Birthday tracker
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Spartanburg, SC USA
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I use the Kent scraper and love it. And I don't clean the sides that offen.
Phantom...you mean I'm supposed to scrape off that coraline 
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07-29-2003, 10:11 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Georgia, near Atlanta
Posts: 822
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I only scrape off the corralline because I have a fair amount of green corralline that looks too much like the usual hair algae from a distance, and I just don't like the asthetics of it. |
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07-29-2003, 10:40 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
Posts: 18,610
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I clean 3 sides
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07-29-2003, 11:37 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Windsor, Ontario
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I use a pvc pipe with a slot I cut on a 45 degree angle to hold a metal blade. I clean 4 sides... I like the looks of the blue backround better than the coralline. Enough purple already! 
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