Algae

[rojhonelle]

How can I get rid of this please it got bigger over night

. I knows it algae but it looks ugly and want to know how to minus them please

 

[Babygecko1233]

Stick a fuzzy chitton on it. It works wonders!! Have all kinds of baby ones in my 30g :) THEY LOVE FILM ALGAE AND RED CYANO

 

[Babygecko1233]

Looks like your snails are headed there right now ;) I'm sorry I love snails. Good snails bad snail. IDC I love them :)

 

[cloak]

You might want to get yourself a Mag-Float or something similar to help keep the glass clean.

 

[Babygecko1233]

Or a little squigy whilenu cyphin some whater

 

[rojhonelle]

The back of the glass is green because we are trying to grow a coral line

 

[rojhonelle]

Or should we do it another way

 

[Babygecko1233]

If u can fan it off or gently wipe it off..Its not coraline.

 

[rojhonelle]

Our phosphates are 0, and the lights are bad but we bought new lights so I think that affects it too but we saw little spots on the glass . Is that not coral line

 

[NickNiz]

That does look like coralline forming on the glass. I think you're doing it correctly, but I'm not sure what you can do to the film algae without harming the coralline. One person recommended fuzzy chitons, which are amazing little tank cleaners. They'll stay still until pretty much all of the algae under them is eaten. You can order fuzzy chitons at Reefcleaners.org .

As for the hair algae, I found that a turkey baster is the best way to get it off of rock. Then you can either manually remove it, or hope the filter will clean it out.

 

[rojhonelle]

Thanks very much