Magfloat Upgrade

Excellent idea, Thanks!

 

Great IDEA! The biggest pain for my on my oceanic 72 gallon... are the edges... my magfloat... no matter which direction (horizontal or verticle) just can't seem to clean along the silicon where the edges of glass meet... I HATE IT! Curious... since this over-extends the magnets areas... does it help with the corners? Also, does the magnets strength become reduced? thanks!!1
Ryan

 

thanks, i have noticed that it does overlap onto the silcone edges a little more with the pad on it.
i havent seen any change in strength of the magnet with this on.

 

This Idea is so great! It has saved me from doing my usual razor blade scraping and it really gets into the corners so well I was lucky that I actually had a few brand new dobie sponges in the house when I found your post and I immediately tried it. Thanks again for posting.

 

haha nice idea, I love it how you went with the sponge idea at the end, very funny
and very cool too. thanks for sharing

 

Great idea. The only thing I would change is... when the significant other was doing dishes I would show up with the new sponge and tell her, "I was thinking about you today and thought you might like a new sponge." You might win points for that, or it could backfire and you end up in a whole heap of trouble. In my case it would be the latter, but thats fine I am always in some kind of trouble anyway.;D

 

looks like a good idea. I have been using a 5" paint scraper. When I go to the new 150g tank at 35" rather that my 90g at 29" this will help.

 

I don't have a magfloat and have never heard of dobie pads, but this does seem like a nice combo.

I have two quick questions.
One: would this work if you had the "Mag-Flip?"

two: a magfloat made for glass would not work on acrylic because of scratches, right? But would an acrylic cleaner work on glass?

 

not sure on the acrylic cleaner to glass.

it may work on a mag flip. ive never tried.
the scrapper part of that may be able to go through the cut in the dobie pad though.

 

I didn't find a Dobie pad but the dollar store had something like it ( a plastic mesh of some sort and I tried it on my regular tanks and it works great) haven't tried on the starfire type glass of my 113g tank yet(will be testing a "hidden" part of the glass)....will post agin once I tried.