Good tongs?

[Guest beatle]

I'd like to be able to work in my tank and rearrange things, move snails, prop up corals, etc. more frequently, but I don't always feel clean enough to shove my arm in up to my armpit to do so. I know a lot of people use tongs of some type to work in their reef. I got some mixed advice on RC, but I know we're smarter than that.

[flowerseller]

I have a cheap pair of plastic tongs that I like a bunch until they break.

Then I get another pair.

I also have a SS pair of 8", 14", 24" hemostats I got online.

I have hidden the remaining ones because somehow they kept ending up in the back yard stuck in dirt or hanging off various things.

[zotzer]

I just have a cheap pair of long reef tweezers I got from Drs Foster and Smith, I think. They are not long enough that my hand doesn't go in the tank though.

 

Tracy

[steveoutlaw]

I think Howard has the most experience with Thongs.

[jason the filter freak]

I have a set of tongs / coral cutter kit. I have had great experience with them, they're cheap, skinny means they get into tight places. They were 16$ at petsmart the have plenty of grabbing force for shells, smaller corals, and small LR rubble. I think they're made by marina, you can fine them by the gravel vaccumes

[fab]

I use Tongs and Aqua Gloves that are very long.

 

fab