How often do you clean your glass?

[jjgl]

Just trying to get an idea of how often everybody is cleaning their glass. Seems as if I cant make it past 3 days. Maybe I have a problem.:notsure:

 

[nas19320]

I clean mine almost everyday regardless if I see anything or not, if I wait too long then I have to go in with a razor blade.

 

[jjgl]

Oh. So I dont necessarilly have a problem then??

 

[nas19320]

Do you have nuisance algae in other areas? I have no other algae problems and its only a light film that forms on the glass, I can live with that little bit.

 

[jjgl]

Well let me try to describe what I see. My back glass is almost covered with green algae. My strainer is brown and the front glass gets green also. My sand bed is also getting brown. I just did a water change on sat. it only stayed clean until wed.

 

[joker_ca]

i clean the front of my acrylic tank once a week

 

[jjgl]

My actinics come on at 7am and off at 8pm. My daylights come on at 8am and off at 7pm. Then I have lunars through the night. Is this too much????

 

[nacl-man]

How long has the tank been set up?

 

[jjgl]

About 8 weeks.

 

[dennis26]

jjgl... i go thru the same problem. green and brown alge all over the glass , seems like almost every other day i have to either clean it or ignore it ...still havent figure out which one hurts more.Today i got one of them cleaning magnets maybe that'll make it easier on me. They told me that its phosphates but everytime i test for them they r 0 :notsure: :notsure:
weird because i use ro/di water. well good luck
Dennis

 

[jjgl]

Thanks Dennis. Let me know if you find a cure. Im waiting for my phosphate test kit to arrive now. Godd luck to ya.

 

[mkcsil18]

I actually just created a thread about this yesturday as well...? I am having same problem, my tank was fine for about 2 months, then all of a sudden this started to happen, ever day I get home I have to clean my glass, my LR, glass and crushed coral has brown stuff all over it? SOMEONE please help us..
Thanks.....
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/show...hreadid=142170
that was my thread...
I also checked ALL my parameters, and they were all fine?

 

[steveoutla]

I was having the same problem.......turns out the tank was getting way too much light. I had about 12 hours of my daylight bulbs per day. I've moved my tank out of any sunlight and cut back the hours of my lighting. My actinics come on at 8:00am, the daylights come on at 10:00am and go off at 6:00 pm and my actinics go off at 8:00pm and my lunars are on for the rest of the time. I also have some great water flow in there and things seem to by doing well.

 

[mkcsil18]

thanks man, I actually set up my timers lastnight with about the same times for my lights... lets see what happens....

 

[steveoutla]

No problem. Just make sure your tank isn't getting any sunlight to go with it.

 

[fajohns]

I clean mines every two to three days. I purchased the magnet cleaner and it works great

 

[jjgl]

Well its nice to have so many opinions on this. Thanks everyone for your help. I cut back my lighting and im awaiting my phosphate test kit. Thanks.

 

[dennis26]

jjgl .. try to get a different test kit than PO4 from nutrafin
because i dont like this one at all (16$) and dont see any readings