been away for 2 days and heres my update OMG

[japes]

I spray it on the hand-towel and never clean the top 10cm or so, I just wipe that with a slightly damp chamois.

convict_breeder also has some competition

 

[ewurm]

You should never clean a tank with windex. never, never, never. I think the tank looks much better.

Cleaning the tank with Windex is fine, getting windex in your tank is not fine.

 

[overstocked]

nice army men, looks good,

 

[jmac510]

lol
like your battle field japes

 

[japes]

lol
like your battle field japes

It's not mine

 

[TMDragon]

Meh, windex isn't needed. A microfiber towel is my best friend when it comes to cleaning glass or anything really. I use a bigger one to wash my car . All you need is a little water and everything comes off. You can also find these towels just about everywhere too and they are super cheap.

Also convict_breeder you said that all you had access to was a wal-mart, so why not grab a background from them for 3 bucks? Or if you want a pure black background, which I dont think wal-mart has, you can buy some foam poster-board for about 1-2 dollars and cut it up. With a background, light from other sources, room lighting etc., will be kept out more, keeping the algae levels down, and your algae won't be as apparent, which could be a good or bad thing. Good Luck!

Btw, your pleco is pretty sweet. He's an algae inhaling beast!

 

[driftwood]

thats what they say but ive been doing it for yrs and never had a problem. you just dont want to spray it all over the glass just make a few streams and wipe down.

I'm sure you know what you're doing but be careful with that stuff. I had a buddy that lost an entire tank of really cool fish and the only thing we can think of that would have killed them off so fast was the windex. I just use a damp cloth myself especially after watching that disaster but then again he was spraying the stuff right on the glass.

 

[Decoder]

I noticed that that convict is always in the same place doing the same thing. I wonder if she's dead?

 

[FSM]

Sometimes I've even breathed on the glass so it fogs up, and then used a towel. Normally I just get a damp cloth though.

 

[scubasteve06]

I do as japes said. I always spray the windex on the hand towel I am going to use to wipe the glass with.