Fish that eat glass wall algae

[Jack_soho]

Starting to develop some pretty crazy hair algae on the walls of my tank after the nitrogen cycle, what fish, or tang should i get, i’m pretty aware of bristletooths or even a foxface but are there any other recommendations that you guys have personally expirenced that destroy glass algae

thanks!

 

[slingfox]

Best clean up crew to keep the tank walls clean is a fish keeper with a scraper!

 

[cacas]

I think urchins are alright, I don't know if any fish efficiently can/do eat algae off of the glass

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I'll second urchins; they do pretty well with glass algae. Although investing in a good scraper (the TUNZE one was what I used) is never a bad option

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Try to figure out why crazy hair algae is growing on the glass, that is excessive algae and there should be a reason it is happening.

 

[exnisstech]

Never seen gha on glass. There's nothing but a scraper that will clean glass. Fish, urchins and snails will eat off the glass but I wouldn't call it cleaning because they just leave trails so you can see how dirty the glass really is.

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[get-salty]

I wouldnt fully rely on fish/cuc to maintain your reef tank my man.. get your hand in there and scrap it !

 

[W31Olds]

Never seen gha on glass. There's nothing but a scraper that will clean glass. Fish, urchins and snails will eat off the glass but I wouldn't call it cleaning because they just leave trails so you can see how dirty the glass really is.

GHA will grow pretty much anywhere. My Tank had quite a bit of it on the back glass. The good thing is that it's very easy to remove from glass.

 

[MC Blowfish]

Scrape it. Fish and inverts will eat it, but they'll never get it all.

 

[SlothMartin]

how do you guys remove the waste from scraping? the turkey baster only gets the smallest amount at a time so if i scrape a big chunk, 80% of it is getting blown away. I know i could siphon when i do a WC but id rather do that in the sump so i can suck out the detritus that collects

 

[W31Olds]

I have a Cannister filter I hang on the side of my Tank that I load with Floss and use to suck up the Algae as I remove it. Works well.

 

[slingfox]

how do you guys remove the waste from scraping? the turkey baster only gets the smallest amount at a time so if i scrape a big chunk, 80% of it is getting blown away. I know i could siphon when i do a WC but id rather do that in the sump so i can suck out the detritus that collects

I usually just let the waste go down into my sump and then my filter roller pulls the waste out. If for some reason I have a lot of waste to siphon out (eg, massive Dino’s outbreak!) I will turn off the return pulp and run a Marineland Magnum Polishing Filter in the display tank to save on the filter roller fleece usage.