Fresh off the boat!!!

[Reefer Madness]

Who among us will be the first to test these out?

 

[Srt4eric]

If you buy me one I'll throw it in my tank.

 

[finalphaze987]

Initial impressions on R2R seem positive, but I take slot of what I read on there with a grain of salt...I thought about picking one up to use in a water mixing station but the suction cups wont work well with the container i have in mind and ended up going with a gyre to sweep the salt from the bottom.

$156 ain't bad tho....if it works

 

[tribbitt]

Initial impressions on R2R seem positive, but I take slot of what I read on there with a grain of salt...I thought about picking one up to use in a water mixing station but the suction cups wont work well with the container i have in mind and ended up going with a gyre to sweep the salt from the bottom.

$156 ain't bad tho....if it works

From what i understand it’s magnetic, but with suction cups added so if you bump the dry side off the wet side doesn’t just fall

Could be completely off, but that’s what I heard someone say and it sounds sensible

 

[richiev]

From what i understand it’s magnetic, but with suction cups added so if you bump the dry side off the wet side doesn’t just fall

Could be completely off, but that’s what I heard someone say and it sounds sensible

That's what I heard too, but might have been someone from this forum. However, the design inherently requires magnets anyway because that's how it would be able to transfer energy through the glass. Given that, it seems plausible that suction cup is a good solution to the dreaded dry side falling off the aquarium when one side is bumped, and completely ruining it, issue. I say that having a vortech dryside I need to try getting a replacement for because of that exact issue.

 

[psidriven]

it'll definitely work since they're just reverse engineering it. personally i'm waiting til v.2 or 3, just so they get the bugs out. v.1 seems to always have some funky issues.

 

[Reefer Madness]

From what i understand it’s magnetic, but with suction cups added so if you bump the dry side off the wet side doesn’t just fall

Could be completely off, but that’s what I heard someone say and it sounds sensible

It says the larger one pictured is good up to 21mm thickness and on some of the other pictures you can see it has four smaller suction cups.

 

[finalphaze987]

That's what I heard too, but might have been someone from this forum. However, the design inherently requires magnets anyway because that's how it would be able to transfer energy through the glass. Given that, it seems plausible that suction cup is a good solution to the dreaded dry side falling off the aquarium when one side is bumped, and completely ruining it, issue. I say that having a vortech dryside I need to try getting a replacement for because of that exact issue.

This might help...I plan on picking up a couple to try out for when I swap out my wet sides during maintenance

 

[Reefer Madness]

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This might help...I plan on picking up a couple to try out for when I swap out my wet sides during maintenance

I have seen these types of holders as well on Amazon and thoight of buying some. The ones I seen aren't as clean looking as these but I guess if they work.

 

[Darkxerox]

With how expensive the dry sides are I use the included cable tie mounts. Do these use double sided tape too?

 

[Reefer Madness]

With how expensive the dry sides are I use the included cable tie mounts. Do these use double sided tape too?

That's what i use a well and from the pictures it looks like 3m tape.

 

[finalphaze987]

With how expensive the dry sides are I use the included cable tie mounts. Do these use double sided tape too?

Yea, there's double sided tape on the slim part that sits flat on the tank. Probably good for quick swaps, but nothing id want the dry side to sit in for an extended perion of time. I still plan on using the cable tie mounts in conjunction with these...paying for another dry side wouldn't be fun at all.