Tank cleaning

[Bulldog07]

I stumbled across this last night, and I thought I might share.  I might be late to the party on this one, but I haven't seen this particular product before.  After watching some of the videos, it seems like it might do a pretty good job, but at a pretty steep cost.  Anyway, take a look if you have a few minutes:

http://www.oceanswipe360.com/#!specifications/cu7s

[Ron]

Different cleaning patterns for every day of the week! Holy moly! 

[danielratti]

The people that buy those are the same ones who pay people 500 plus a week to clean there tank...

[Steve]

Who spends 2 hours per week cleaning glass? 

What's the price of this thing anyway, I'd like to know that because I don't see it listed anywhere on the site. Probably so people don't die of sticker shock most likely.

[Bulldog07]

I have a hard time imagining a situation where I would pay someone to clean a tank.  At one time we had five tanks up and running on three different floors of our townhouse (they weren't big tanks), and I still did not spend that much time cleaning.  I have never had a 100+ tank, so maybe I am missing something, but this seems a bit excessive.  I have not been able to find a price either, but I cannot imagine it will be cheap.  This thing can avoid obstacles too!  There is no way that is cheap.

Interestingly, I just jumped over to Cichlid Forum, and they have an article about it on their front page, and I thought it might be worth giving a once over to see what they have to say:

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/blog/ocean-swipe-360-makes-cleaning-a-breeze/

[Ron]

I have a hard time imagining a situation where I would pay someone to clean a tank.

I don't. It'd be a situation where you could go down in the basement and view the bottom dwellers through 10' tall viewing windows. Then go back up to the first floor to view the other fish higher in the water column. To feed them, you'd travel to the upper floor and throw food in and watch them hit the top of the water. I'd gladly pay someone to put on scuba gear and get in to clean it. 

Interestingly, I just jumped over to Cichlid Forum, and they have an article about it on their front page, and I thought it might be worth giving a once over to see what they have to say:

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/blog/ocean-swipe-360-makes-cleaning-a-breeze/

C-F has always been money driven and therefore, I'd take anything you see there regarding products with a second of hesitation while you consider their interests. Through the years they've always been active about monitoring content. If you wanted to leave a bad review on their forum about it, it wouldn't last a day before it was removed, especially if they are a vendor.

[Bulldog07]

I have a hard time imagining a situation where I would pay someone to clean a tank.

I don't. It'd be a situation where you could go down in the basement and view the bottom dwellers through 10' tall viewing windows. Then go back up to the first floor to view the other fish higher in the water column. To feed them, you'd travel to the upper floor and throw food in and watch them hit the top of the water. I'd gladly pay someone to put on scuba gear and get in to clean it. 

Fair enough.  I guess the way I look at it is that I would not take on something I cannot care for myself, so I clearly did not consider something that large, and that being said, I can see where someone would get tired of taking care of something like that over and over again.

Interestingly, I just jumped over to Cichlid Forum, and they have an article about it on their front page, and I thought it might be worth giving a once over to see what they have to say:

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/blog/ocean-swipe-360-makes-cleaning-a-breeze/

C-F has always been money driven and therefore, I'd take anything you see there regarding products with a second of hesitation while you consider their interests. Through the years they've always been active about monitoring content. If you wanted to leave a bad review on their forum about it, it wouldn't last a day before it was removed, especially if they are a vendor.

Please do not mistake this as an endorsement, simply giving another option for someone to check out if they are interested in the topic.  That and I think they beat me to posting it, and I have to give credit where credit is due.  I was given the link by a coworker/boss who was actually seriously considering something like this.

[Ron]

I have a hard time imagining a situation where I would pay someone to clean a tank.

I don't. It'd be a situation where you could go down in the basement and view the bottom dwellers through 10' tall viewing windows. Then go back up to the first floor to view the other fish higher in the water column. To feed them, you'd travel to the upper floor and throw food in and watch them hit the top of the water. I'd gladly pay someone to put on scuba gear and get in to clean it. 

Fair enough.

Twas meant tongue-in-cheek. I agree with you on not realistically seeing myself paying someone else to clean my tanks.

Interestingly, I just jumped over to Cichlid Forum, and they have an article about it on their front page, and I thought it might be worth giving a once over to see what they have to say:

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/blog/ocean-swipe-360-makes-cleaning-a-breeze/

C-F has always been money driven and therefore, I'd take anything you see there regarding products with a second of hesitation while you consider their interests. Through the years they've always been active about monitoring content. If you wanted to leave a bad review on their forum about it, it wouldn't last a day before it was removed, especially if they are a vendor.

Please do not mistake this as an endorsement, simply giving another option for someone to check out if they are interested in the topic.  That and I think they beat me to posting it, and I have to give credit where credit is due.  I was given the link by a coworker/boss who was actually seriously considering something like this.

I hadn't. Just wanted to throw out there that C-F has potential to be bias (largely whenever a product or manufacturer is involved).

The product is interesting overall. For myself, even if the price was right, I couldn't see using it because I wouldn't want a track installed around the perimeter of my tank.