Green Algae

[elton092982]

Hey guys new guy here. Just recently my glass is turning green. I use the mag flow and it won't remove it. I dropped the lights to 7 hrs and I have about 15 snails and 15 crabs. I use RO/DI water and RO water to top it off so I'm not sure whats the problem. I figured the snails would clean it but all I see is them roam over he green area and it stays there.:confused:

[fanaglethebagle]

Get a mag-float, wonderful little inventions that let you clean the glass from the outside.

[reefinghabit]

i use a mag float. if you do not use it daily, you will begin to accumulate harder coraline encrusting algaes. green purple pink red. maybe you will want to use a metal blade scraper. if they mag float doesnt work.

[wsonner]

Careful with a Mag Float if you have an acrylic tank. I scratched the holy begeezers out of my brand new tank when sand got trapped in the Mag Float and I didn't notice.

[elton092982]

I use the mag float seems as if I just go over it and nothing happens. Isn't there anything that can clean the glass. I have all kinds of snails and they seem to just go over the green glass and not clean anything:confused:

[JayM]

Doesn't this belong in reef talk?

If you want to get rid of the algae, get rid of the nutrients in your water that are acting a fertilizer FOR the algae. Those foods are nitrate and phospahate. Add light to those chemicals, and you get algae......there sin't any cleanup crew that will get rid of ALL of it. I have snails, shrimp, crabs, 2 tangs and 2 types of blenny, purigen and a WICKED skimmer running, and I still get some algae. Scraping it off is a part of reefing we have to put up with to view our beautiful corals (and fish)

[penguinsix]

Could it just be green coraline?

[shawn]

Some of the real thin green algae will build up if you don't clean the glass often. For me, I find that once a week (with some back-and-forth scrubbing on the tough spots) keeps it mostly at bay. Now and then I use a scraper to remove the trouble spots. I have a glass tank, which is pretty durable since I don't have silica sand, and I find that getting a mag cleaner rated for a thicker tank to be well worth the money (scrubs harder).

Welcome! And good luck!