I’m a total sucker for little items that make my life easier or make something less annoying. I’ve had fish tanks around most of my life, fresh or salt, and not once have I seen a suction cup last more than 6 months before it’s falling off the glass. Stumbled across these Zoo Med Mag Clips on Premium Aquatics a couple months ago and decided to buy a couple of them.

The MagClips come packaged with 6 different sizes of these clips that just screw into the actual magnet, so you can hold anything from probes, to tubing, heaters, whatever you need. The magnets are also pretty strong, so no worries about your gear falling.

The first ones I bought a couple months back have not shown any signs of rust in the tank, nor have they slipped. They’re solid, encased magnets, and if you need to change its use to hold a heater instead of your pH probe, just pop in another clamp. On that note, I could do without the bag full of extra unused clips - each pack only has 1 magnet, and I really don’t see myself changing out clips.

I recently placed another order and have replaced every single heater suction cup in both of my tanks (FW & reef). I am also using them to hold all probes, RO tubing connected to my dosing pumps (reduced the vibration) & my top off sensor.

I’ve seen some DIY magnets similar to this idea, but in my opinion, $5 for these things is a great buy.

Previous Pick Products
The Filter Guys’ Reef Sleeve

StonyReef’s Pick Product this month is the Reef Sleeve from The Filter Guys. The Reef Sleeve is a disposable, shoulder length polymer sleeve that is just outstanding for those times when you don’t want to get your hands wet. I can’t count how many times I’ve been ready to walk out the door for the morning commute, showered, shaved, coffee in hand, and noticed something in the tank that really shouldn’t wait…

A knocked over acropora that is laying too close to some GSP. A turbo snail that pushed some frags behind the rockwork. Sure, it could wait until I get home from the office, but that GSP could take out a nice portion of the acro in the meantime. Maybe the frags behind the rockwork get pushed even further back. With the Reef Sleeve, no worries. Slide it on, take care of business, toss it and be on your way.

I was at The Filter Guys to buy a couple RO/DI fittings and saw these, and like gum at the checkout counter, bought a pack of 25 sleeves as an afterthought. I can guarantee, next time I need something from them, I’m going to add the 100 pack to my order just to have on hand. Getting hands wet before I head out to a nice dinner or the office? Re-rinsing hands 5 times a day? Things of the past.

I’m 6 foot, and it goes all the way to my shoulder. I stuck my entire arm in the tank to move something the other morning, slipped the sleeve off, set it aside, and used it that night when I came home. They’re not designed for tons of uses, I did have some live rock rip a hole in the finger, but you can likely get a couple uses out of them, depending on useage. At roughly 25 cents a pop, there is no reason to not have a pack of these on hand….

For more info or to purchase, you can check out The Filter Guys here…