i need help with bio cube scratches

[rlklassy]

so i have completely emptied my bio cube in hopes to removes scratches with sand paper like iv seen on youtube countless times. it did not work at all really.

so i would love some help getting the scratches out of this tank so i can set it back up.
if you think you can help me i will gladly bring it over lol

all my fish are sitting in a friends tank til its done and the clocks ticken and the things im trying are definitly not doing it

 

[Off The Deep End]

What size sand paper are you using? Where are you located?

 

[rlklassy]

im in northglenn and at first... i just tries using 1500 wet or dry an spending about an hour on one spot til i realized it wasnt doing anything. and then phew went to the store and started at 320. to 400. to 600. to 800. to 1500. nothin

 

[rlklassy]

which its kind of sad. i restore lots of furniture for other people and cant even fix scrathes on my own tank lol

 

[Off The Deep End]

I would have started at 600 and you want to go to at least 3000 to get that polished look, you have to do it in stages and even 1500 will still give you swirls or glossing. It will take some time and can be a PITA. If i had time i would tell you to drop it off and come back in a week but right now i dont, hopefully someone else will. HTH

 

[KhensuRa]

I would think that using sand on glass would make it worse.

 

[rlklassy]

phew starting all over again and more sand paper lol.. okie dokie. theres not a LFS i can pay to do it?

 

[rlklassy]

its acrylic i guess you do it wet.. iv watched multiple videos and it seems to work quite well however perhaps i dont have the hands for this operation lol

 

[KhensuRa]

BIOcudes are glass. I have one and it is glass and all the people I know have glass biocubes. Unless they made some that are acrylic, which could be.

 

[rlklassy]

oh **** lol

 

[rlklassy]

so uhh how do i take it out of glass

 

[KhensuRa]

http://www.oceanicsystems.com/products/biocube.php

THier web site says curved glass.

 

[KhensuRa]

I don't think you can... Get a new tank.

I have a few scratches on mine as well and just look past them.

 

[Off The Deep End]

Oh **** is right!!!! Your not getting them out now

Nice catch KensuRa!

 

[Cherub]

BIOcudes are glass. I have one and it is glass and all the people I know have glass biocubes. Unless they made some that are acrylic, which could be.

That was my thought too but assumed they knew something I didn't lol

FAIL!

 

[Off The Deep End]

That was my thought too but assumed they knew something I didn't lol

FAIL!

LOL...^^^FAIL!... now thats funny

 

[Metalsniper]

Well.. if you end up getting a new one I'll take the old one off your hands. I mean, just trying to help a fellow reefer out.

 

[CRW Reef]

I think Keys has a used biocube for sale just inside the front door, or at least had one on Saturday. As everyone should know, Ki makes some pretty good deals. So.... I would check there if you are needing a new one. Sorry for the mishap

 

[KhensuRa]

Time to get a bigger tank and keep the BC for a frag tank... lol

 

[ShelbyJK500]

Man that sucks! Biocubes and Nano's are all glass. I haven't ever seen or heard of an acrylic one. I have a scratch on the side of one of mine that I noticed after I bought it...oh well, there forever now. Good luck! The one at Key's Island was cheap from what I remember. However, it looked like it had seen better days BUT you never know, once cleaned up maybe it doesn't have a scratch on it!