Thoughts on This.

i use on every once in a while.not had any ill effects yet,and they do work wonderfully.

 

I use them frequently - work great except on coralline.

 

Always heard it has to be the original ones though

 

I have used them for years with no ill affects.

 

Are you guys using then on glass or acrylic? I picked up a box of Magic Erasers a couple years ago but never got the guts to try them.

 

I have used the original one on acrylic and it works fine. Cuts nice with a knife it you want to make smaller pieces of it.

 

Magic erasers are just melamine foam. You can google that and see if anything about melamine foam hurts anything in the tank. I ordered about 30 generic melamine sponges online for $3 a while back and would use them on the tank but my tunze care magnet works too good. I have used magic erasers on tanks before as well researched it and found general consensus that it's just fine. We used them at the zoo to clean phyto and rotifer culture containers since they were less abrasive than other scrubbers.

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I respectfully disagree.

I re purposed a tank at the store that had been cleaned exclusively with magic erasers. It is actually in my basement now and it has zero haze after using them for almost 2 years.

 

This has potential. I would be very interested to see a writeup regarding the magic eraser's effects on both glass and acrylic. wet/dry conditions, and how this could lead to tiny scratches/ algae streaks on the surface.

 

My concern would be in hoe the sponges/product work. Micro beads and flakes of the foam are going to come off and be suspended in the water column. This could be detrimental or agitative to the gills of fish and the flesh of corals and anemones. A flat blade scraper works just as well if not better in most cases. Or a magnafloat or other plastics based hook and loop type device for scouring. For Acrylics. I just wouldn't buy one

 

[QUOTE="Turbo's Aquatics, post: 189464, member: 565". . .
Question: would this possibly be able to remove small scratches in Starphire glass?[/QUOTE]

Oh I would imagine it would right? But you would go through probably 15-30 pads and in the mean time have to find a way to buff it at high speeds underwater...

 

I am not sure, but the store was open for almost 4 years, and we used them extesnsively on all the coral systems with no ill affects to fish or coral.

I have been wet sanding my acrylic tanks, and my final step has been to go over them with magic eraser to eliminate any fine haze

 

Its not too bad, just doing the front 2 panels.

I am going to do some experimenting in the future of fine wet sanding with a stocked tank. I will document it