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One time I was using my mag algae cleaner and got one small particle of sand in between the cleaner and the acrylic and before I knew it, I had several scratches on the front of the tank!
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This is why I normally suggest to people considering acrylic tanks to NOT use magnetic scrapers... I clean all my acrylic panes by hand with a scrubby.
I will admit that you have to baby acrylic along, but even though my tank contains a handful of scratches, I hardly notice them until I'm right up on the tank.
If your tank still looks hazy in the scratched spots (where you touched it up), that means you didn't sand enough at the finest grit... you should be able to polish the scratches out to the point where you wouldn't notice them unless you really looked closely.
I do miss being able to use a magnetic scraper, but then I look into the tank and see just how amazingly clear the acrylic is, and all my yearnings vanish.
