best way to remove heavy diatoms?

[phishphood]

Any idea for the best way to remove a heavy coating of diatoms from an acrylic tank? Credit card method is getting really tedious.

 

[Gomer]

MightyMagnet :-D

I have an acrylic tank and have had to deal with that plague. I have a plastic scraper (the blue multi angle one that some here will know) and it works well. I also had to hand "rub" it out with filter floss. Both took a lot of effort and time. I got my mighty magnet and it came off with so little effort and time. Tank cleaning is a breeze. It is a combo of the cleaning pad and magnet strength (which is WAY better then the typical magfloat types). Mike got the MM algae sock and used it on his Magnevore (another high end and powerful magnet) and it worked out quite well for him too.

Yes, it is expensive. But if I had know it would make cleaning this easy, I would have gotten one ages ago. It would have saved SO much time.

 

[phishphood]

Had a feeling that was what it was going to come to. :sigh: guess I'll start saving up again, heh.

 

[tuberider]

You can just order the Super algae sock and put your hand in it, I do that all of the time for hard to reach areas.

 

[Gomer]

ooh, good idea!

 

[tuberider]

Don't make me tell you about slipping it over the end of a super scraper where it fits perfectly and does an amazing job of cleaning along the sand line without scratching

 

[phishphood]

Would anything stop me from putting the super algae sock over say....an algae free magnet mount and using that? Would that be likely to scratch the walls?

 

[tuberider]

No that would be fine, you may or may not have sizing issues, talk to Rick at MM he's super cool.