Preventing Water Spots on Glass Cover

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One thing I have never figured out is hot to prevent the hard crustaceous type water spots from forming on the glass aquarium cover. Anyone have any opinions on this? Could I use Rain-X on the glass cover without harming the fish? Is there a good and safe chemical to remove the spots?

As long as the cover stays wet it seems to be ok. Problem is the heat from the light dries it out during the day. Lowering the water didn't seem to help either because of condensation. Water drops still formed.
 
Maybe a little vinegar will help remove the hard water stains when you wipe things down during regular maintenance? Dunno 'bout keeping it from happening tho. :(
 
IME, the best prevention is weekly rinsing with vinegar. You can remove stubborn deposits with a razor blade at the same time. Once the glass is clear, rinse and dry it. I find it takes about ten minutes, once a week. It's worth doing regularly to make sure deposits don't have the opportunity to build up.
 
Rain-X is great stuff for your car. I wouldn't trust it in my tank at all. My fish and plants mean more to me than just some regular maintenance for me to risk their lives by trying an unknown chemical over their heads that I know will get wet and rip into my tank.
 
Blinky said:
IME, the best prevention is weekly rinsing with vinegar. You can remove stubborn deposits with a razor blade at the same time. Once the glass is clear, rinse and dry it. I find it takes about ten minutes, once a week. It's worth doing regularly to make sure deposits don't have the opportunity to build up.
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Thanks for idea. I'll try that this week. It seems I do remember hearing this is the way to get rid of scale deposits in coffe makers so i guess it does make sense. The funny part is they have found new cures for all the problems i used to have with my last tank in the 80's. So far this is the only 'inconvenience' no one has a cure for with the new technology! We need to to invent something and become rich! :D J/K.
 
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