RoboSnail World's Best Magnetic Automatic Aquarium Glass Cleaner (PLUS)for Fish Tanks (Glass up to 3/8ths or 10mm )

This little Robot works excellent! If you pay attention to understanding how it operates and set up..the first time I followed the instructions it worked well but when it reached the end of my 200 gallon aquarium it would bump against the edge a few times then rotate up and go to the edge again and repeat.. it finally fell off. I sent a email to the Manufacturer concerned with how to solve it. The Inventor contacted me directly with some suggestions after making sure I programmed it correctly. He explained how it operates. It is supposed to go to the end of the aquarium and once the Robosnail reaches the end the front wheels are supposed to drop off the edge signaling the Robosnail it is at the end and to return to base. My aquarium had a thick bead of silicone inside where I had resealed the tank from a leak. So the inside scuff pad was hitting the silicone not allowing the Robosnail to sense it was at the end. The Manufacturer mentioned that if I had a issue with it he would quickly send me a replacement. After explaining how it works. I said I’ll try and set a barrier up to signal the Robosnail to return. All I did was get a 1/4 inch of plastic tubing and stick it with double sided tape on the outside of my aquarium right along the edge down to have the Robosnail bump into it and trip it’s switch in front instead. Easy fix and the tubing being black is almost invisible on my aquarium. Now once a day it automatically comes on and cleans my glass. It misses a couple spots minor and I have to wipe along the gravel at times though I have it programmed to go pretty low and touch my coral gravel in my Reef tank. In comparison the back glass of my aquarium is a pain for me to keep up with wiping off algae.. I’m considering buying a second one to use on the back glass of my Reef tank. There is mention of its noisy which it is but I prefer to know when it’s working and it doesn’t bother me that much since it keeps my glass clean saving me time. I think it is a fantastic invention with excellent support. This is a small Company that certainly back their product and will help with getting yours up and running. Once you understand how it operates it is a time savor. My Wife always comments now how nice our Reef tank stays looking now..yes it only cleans one side but my tank being large enough it makes a difference. Make sure you check your glass thickness.. if yours is 1/2 inch you will need the more expensive one. Mine being only 10 mm thick the $140 one works perfectly and has never fallen off again since I have it programmed correctly. I cannot imagine not having it now.

This thing is terrible on my 1/2" acrylic tank. I measured the thickness of the panes, and they were 10.8mm. The robosnail is rated to 10mm tanks so I figured it would work. The unit works when traveling down the glass,but going up causes it to loose traction with its very slick tires (silicone). It will sit at the top of the tank trying to inch up to the top edge for minutes at a time. I put double sided tape on the tires (not a fix) to test if traction was its only problem. The bot with double sided tape on the tires did great, however the tape is not durable enough and gets rubbed and destroyed on the glass which is a pain to clean. If the tires were more rubberized, the product would work fine on acrylic. Silicone does NOT stick to acrylic glass very well at all. That's why they don't build acrylic tanks with silicone caulking the same way as they do with glass tanks. I think this thing will work fine on actual silica glass tanks, but I would definitely veer away from using it on acrylic tanks due to the traction issue. I can lay it on my glass table and try to drag it around, very grippy. When I lay it on the top of my tank (acrylic top), it can slide around fairly easily without much side pressure showing its poor grip.

I have a 180 gallon reef tank and use the lights heavily for my coral. I previously had to clean the glass daily to avoid algae and calcium build up. Robo Snail however has changed my tank maintenance. I have now reduced my glass cleaning to water changes and have found that my tank genuinely looks clearer and more bright thanks to the robo snail. I also had the opportunity to deal with the owner and inventor who stands behind the product completely. I am a tough customer and have pushed the product to great levels of satisfaction.

----------------------------Update on the robosnail --------------------------------- Contacted Robosnail about the unit. Have to say I'm very impressed with the follow up. He stayed in constant contact with me checking back on how the unit was performing. Finally determined it was a bad unit and he sent another which arrived quickly. The new unit doesn't creep downward at all and works great!! Very happy with this device! Keeps glass nice and clean. Hoping the next version will do more than one pass because it will miss a few spots but that’s going to happen with any of these type devices unless they make at least 2 passes when cleaning. Even with the missed spots they are very small and really you can’t even notice them from outside the glass its only when you look at the inside of the glass form the side of the tank. Its not that it misses the same spots over and over its just when it cleans there may be a section here or there that gets missed but most likely was cleaned on last cleaning therefore its not bad. Either way as stated customer service has been outstanding and the unit works beautifully! Now I can just sit back and enjoy my tank and when I’m too busy with work I don’t have to worry about coming home to algae covering the glass (at least not on the front anyway…) I still have to leave it at 4 stars bc of the price but I if I could I’d give it a 4.9 rating. Its really nice and you won’t be disappointed with this investment! Got high hopes for ver 2.0! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At first I wrote a pretty ugly review about the robosnail. Wasn't too happy because I thought I received the smaller unit. Apparently even though the model number shows the smaller unit they have upgraded these to the larger units (for .5 inch glass) The problem is nowhere in the packaging does it state this. Apparently it's just a golden Circle put on the box. That said I was very aggravated in the beginning thinking they sent me the wrong one but after contacting their customer service I found that it is the correct size. My glass is half inch thick and 6 ft long. I set it up and for the most part it works fine. I did have to take some clear tape and put it on my left edge but I use the clear boxing tape and put about a half inch strip down the left Edge. At first I wasn't too crazy about this but honestly the only reason I see it is because I know it's there. I even had my wife stare at that side of the tank for 10 minutes trying to figure out what I did and she never saw the tape. It sounds kind of cheap to have to put tape on there but honestly you're not going to see it. That said the good is the unit seems to work well and keep everything clean. As long as it runs once a day the algae never really builds up. I would still clean the Velcro on the inside piece to keep anything like coralline algae from building up on it and scratching the glass. The bad is it somewhat bulky and the design isn't the prettiest in the world but it's not horrible by any means. For $250 I do think it's overpriced. It could have been smaller and Slicker looking and had a few other features but as usual when something's first rolled out it never seems to be top of the line. It's what you would expect from the first of its kind. On a 6ft long tank it's not that big of a deal because you're only talking 4 inches in the right hand corner but if it was a smaller tank I would probably have to say it would be a little bit more noticeable. Again if it was smaller and neater looking no one would care but it's kind of large and bulky. It does have a light on the front of it that stays on 24/7 but while some people have complained about it I don't really see a problem with it. That's probably the only thing that looks neat in my opinion. I don't like that it has to be mounted on the right-hand corner of the tank I would much prefer to have the option to go on either side. I also don't like that it can't be programmed for specific times but instead you have to hit the button and then it runs every 12 hours from that point. I also had to put tape on the right side below the docking unit because with it tracking back 6ft sometimes it slipped too far down but after talking to customer service it ended up just being the wheels needing cleaned. They still had a little oil from the manufacturer which caused it to lose traction and drop about an inch as it traveled back to the docking station. Since I clean the wheels everything has been fine. On a couple of occasions for whatever reason it seemed to keep pushing on the edge instead of stopping. When it continued to push it eventually fail. Got to say I have hardwood floors and one of the nice things about it being so bulky is it can take a beating because it fell a good 4 feet and didn't even scratch it. Also I should note this was before I added the tape. It hasn't fallen since then so far for the last week it's worked perfect. I would also make sure your glass is perfectly clean before you set it up. It does great keeping the glass clean but if you let the algae build up and then tried to let the robosnail clean it it probably wouldn't do very well. But I mean seriously you can't really hold that against them considering if you go a week or two without cleaning your glass it's not like you're just going to rub the glass cleaner across it and be done. I mean you would have to scrub it down pretty well so you can’t expect this little thing to do all that. But again if you clean it real good and then let this thing run every 12 hours it will maintain it. I did forget to mention that you also have to clean the top two inches and bottom two inches of the glass yourself. I don't understand why it can't clean a little further up. I have a canopy on top of my tank so it goes up until it hits the canopy in which it has a little mechanism at the top of it that lets it know it hit the canopy and sends it back down. But because of the way it's designed the scrubber on the inside won't get that top inch or two. But again as I stated I can live with that considering it's the first robosnail out there available. You do have to program it to keep it off the bottom so that it doesn't get sand inside of it. So therefore again you'll have to clean the bottom but for those of us that have big tanks especially the long ones I don't mind making a pass at the top and bottom once a week. It's not that big of a concern. Personally I think it's pretty neat but of course it's got its flaws. My biggest problem was the price. I think that it's way overpriced. Normally I don't really complain about the price because especially in this hobby I know everything's expensive but in this case I think it is still a little too pricey for something that lacks a certain amount of sophistication and design. That said I still purchased it and I'm sure many others will but if the company that made these don't do something about the design and price as soon as possible they're going to lose a lot of potential business because already they have these things in development that work off of Wi-Fi, have cameras included, and even allow you to map out the directions you want it to travel when cleaning your tank and at half the cost. From what I can tell this is the first company to make them available and nobody else has it coming out for at least about a year. Anyway I know I'm all over the board on this because I'm kind of in a hurry but thought I would type up a review being my first one wasn't exactly fair. I can't say that I would actually recommend it because unless you have a bigger tank this unit is too large and stands out a little too much and for the price of it that's kind of steep. I will note that the company did email me and say that if it fell off the glass they would replace it free of charge. I'm not the type of person to take advantage of people so I don't know that I would ever send it back even if it did drop and break but that was nice of them. I guess it comes down to whether or not you're willing to spend the money. As I stated nothing is in this hobby is cheap so if you're worried about the money then it's probably better you not purchase it. But it is nice to have especially if you have a tank that 6 ft long. Overall its not a bad at all but ultimately due to the price I couldn’t really go any higher than 4 stars.

Absoluter Müll. Viel zu teuer. Also das Teil sollte Glasscheiben mit 1 cm Dicke problemlos reinigen. Mein Glas ist 1 cm dick und es geht trotzdem nicht. Es fährt herunter und bleibt dort. Die Navigation kriegt es somit auch nicht hin. NICHT KAUFEN !!!

Not uk plug finally got us to uk adaptor only to find out it does not work compleat wast of money will be seeking a refund

I want a replacement

I had high expectations for this product to be very disappointed, really not worth the money doesn't clean the glass very well. Good idea needs a lot of work to make it a good product.

mangels Alternativen hatte ich mir den Robosnail bestellt. Die Einrichtung war relativ einfach. Nur leider hält er sich nicht immer an die eingestellten Höhen und Tiefen. Daher hängt er sehr oft im Sand fest oder fällt von der Scheibe (meine Scheibe ist mit 11mm dicker als angegeben). Neu einstellen und dann geht es erstmal ne Weile. Wenn alles dann funktioniert macht er auch ordentlich 1x am Tag Krach und die Scheibe sauber. Achso das Netzteil ist amerikanisch, dass muss man gegen ein europäisches tauschen.