Have you ever bought something and said "I wish I had bought this sooner" or "I wish I had thought of this"? Well the other day I bought an Easy Blade for cleaning my tank and just have to share my experience with it.
Some of you may know I have a 180g tank that acts as a room divider. So when things are going well I get good coralline algae growth, however I have to clean three sides of the tank. This has always been a pain with a regular bladed scrapper. Further I am always afraid of really attacking the corners because I am afraid of messing up the silicone. Thus the corners tend to go uncleaned, plus they are hard to get too. So while surfing the other day I found something that looked promising. It was an Easy Blade that I picked up from marine depot. There may be other brands or designs but this is the one I am writing about:
http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewItem.asp?idproduct=AF1311
As per the instructions I attached it to a magnet using super glue. In about 15 mins I was ready to go. The blade can be retracted for regular algae use. However, green glass algae was not what I was after. So I extended the blade and put it in my tank. Here is a picture of it in my tank after eating some coralline algae.
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I then went to work on this corner.
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Within about five minutes it was clean!
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I was doing the happy dance! This was so much easier than using the old method. I was surprised how easily the coralline algae came off. This is the best 12.95 that I have spent in this hobby so far :lol:
I give it two thumbs up !
Some of you may know I have a 180g tank that acts as a room divider. So when things are going well I get good coralline algae growth, however I have to clean three sides of the tank. This has always been a pain with a regular bladed scrapper. Further I am always afraid of really attacking the corners because I am afraid of messing up the silicone. Thus the corners tend to go uncleaned, plus they are hard to get too. So while surfing the other day I found something that looked promising. It was an Easy Blade that I picked up from marine depot. There may be other brands or designs but this is the one I am writing about:
http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewItem.asp?idproduct=AF1311
As per the instructions I attached it to a magnet using super glue. In about 15 mins I was ready to go. The blade can be retracted for regular algae use. However, green glass algae was not what I was after. So I extended the blade and put it in my tank. Here is a picture of it in my tank after eating some coralline algae.
I then went to work on this corner.
Within about five minutes it was clean!
I was doing the happy dance! This was so much easier than using the old method. I was surprised how easily the coralline algae came off. This is the best 12.95 that I have spent in this hobby so far :lol:
I give it two thumbs up !
