would it hurt anything if....

[skirrby]

i was to scrape all the coraline off the back glass of my tank.... ive been wanting to do this for a few days now, for some reason i want to see it clean again, and see how fast it comes back. how much would it hurt if i was to scrape it all back down to clean glass?

 

[nm reef]

just cleaning the coraline off the glass probably wouldn't hurt at all...but in my situation moving everything around to get to it may be problematic. I let coraline cover the sides and front of my refugium then scrape it off about once a month...great way to "seed" new coraline growth.

 

[skirrby]

yeah, i see what your saying.. i wasnt planing on moving any rocks though, just scraping what i can get to. cant ever complain about seeding more coraline

 

[reefermon]

I scrape the back of my tank all the time. My back is painted blue, and I like to see it. However when u start to mve thing is when a problem happens, I lost 2 corals last week redoing my rock structure. For some reason though the algea on my sides of the tank is never purple its always green

 

[diadema]

Heres the problem. You scrape the huge amounts of corallineon the back glass - within a week - it's basically covered the other 3 pieces of glass - so you're now scraping the front and sides. For that reason, I just let it go.

 

[skirrby]

hmm, well its all scraped off now,, wow, been forever since i saw my back glass so clean, almost forgot my backround was black. looks good so far... cant wait for the lights to come on so i can see it better.