Dried Water

[hawil]

How do I remove this dried up water at the top part of my fish tank?

 

[Crossfire]

How do I remove this dried up water at the top part of my fish tank?

Take a sheet of paper towel, or a rag and get it moist but not soaked. Scrub it off, you may need some elbow grease. If this doesn't work as well, the sell special aquarium glass cleaner that cleans the glass but is fish safe

Did you fill your tank all the way up? Not filling it all up will do that.

 

[hawil]

How do I remove this dried up water at the top part of my fish tank?

Take a sheet of paper towel, or a rag and get it moist but not soaked. Scrub it off, you may need some elbow grease. If this doesn't work as well, the sell special aquarium glass cleaner that cleans the glass but is fish safe

Did you fill your tank all the way up? Not filling it all up will do that.

I was thinking of that but I was unsure if it will work, it is very rough. Oh, I'll try to check my LFS.

I live in a tropical country, even though I don't fill it all up, the heat hear causes my tank to loose water so it still dries up on the glass

 

[Crossfire]

Does the tank have a lid? A close fitting lid plus the tank filled up all the way will decrease the amount of water evaporating, and the condensation from it will just drop back into the tank as liquid water.

Try using API Safe&Easy Aquarium Cleaner. Should work nicely.

 

[hawil]

Does the tank have a lid? A close fitting lid plus the tank filled up all the way will decrease the amount of water evaporating, and the condensation from it will just drop back into the tank as liquid water.

Try using API Safe&Easy Aquarium Cleaner. Should work nicely.

No it does not have a lid. Any type of lid? should I poke holes on it?

In my hometown, that kind of stuff aren't sold here

 

[raptorrex]

How do I remove this dried up water at the top part of my fish tank?

ok you have an alkaline deposit around your tank?

use an acid to remove it. acetic acid will do (vinegar)

a vinegar wash, in a tub, and a scouring pad (plastic) with a lot of elbow grease.
just take care around the silicon bead. allowing acetic acid to soak in will re-plasticise the silicon. even so, with care its totally safe.
result?
clean tank.

 

[hawil]

How do I remove this dried up water at the top part of my fish tank?

ok you have an alkaline deposit around your tank?

use an acid to remove it. acetic acid will do (vinegar)

a vinegar wash, in a tub, and a scouring pad (plastic) with a lot of elbow grease.
just take care around the silicon bead. allowing acetic acid to soak in will re-plasticise the silicon. even so, with care its totally safe.
result?
clean tank.

But by doing this, I have to remove everything in the fish tank? Especially the fish

 

[raptorrex]

How do I remove this dried up water at the top part of my fish tank?

ok you have an alkaline deposit around your tank?

use an acid to remove it. acetic acid will do (vinegar)

a vinegar wash, in a tub, and a scouring pad (plastic) with a lot of elbow grease.
just take care around the silicon bead. allowing acetic acid to soak in will re-plasticise the silicon. even so, with care its totally safe.
result?
clean tank.

But by doing this, I have to remove everything in the fish tank? Especially the fish

No, not at all.
holding a cloth beneath the area you are working on, will be all you need.
and remember if you use an acid to remove an alkaline, they cancel each other out. that's why the whole thing works.

actually the water, from the taps, in the ;Lake district. is so acidic it can do the job, alone, with a little work.
lol. people keep fish up there too. lol.

 

[hawil]

How do I remove this dried up water at the top part of my fish tank?

ok you have an alkaline deposit around your tank?

use an acid to remove it. acetic acid will do (vinegar)

a vinegar wash, in a tub, and a scouring pad (plastic) with a lot of elbow grease.
just take care around the silicon bead. allowing acetic acid to soak in will re-plasticise the silicon. even so, with care its totally safe.
result?
clean tank.

But by doing this, I have to remove everything in the fish tank? Especially the fish

No, not at all.
holding a cloth beneath the area you are working on, will be all you need.
and remember if you use an acid to remove an alkaline, they cancel each other out. that's why the whole thing works.

actually the water, from the taps, in the ;Lake district. is so acidic it can do the job, alone, with a little work.
lol. people keep fish up there too. lol.

You gave an idea. I'll just lower the water to 50% and start from there. Commercial vinegar is enough right?