Methods of removing algae?

[Ro Bow]

My tank has lots of green hair algae and cyanobacteria (). When i pluck them off the rocks and remove them from the tank, other loose pieces fly off every single time, and after a few minutes of cleaning i end up with foggy disgusting water and free floating algae in the water column. Some of the free floating algae makes it to the sump but most ends up hiding away in my tank, only to cause more and more algae to grow. I'm wondering what you would recommend doing when taking algae out. I sometimes turn off my powerhead, but it doesn't help much. Of course, i also aggressively clean when doing a water change but there's only so much algae i can remove I the course of 2 minutes..
Advice?

Tank 5 minutes after algae clean up;

Foggy water

 

[Ro Bow]

More info:
Tank is 1.65 years old, algae has been here since 2 weeks after the tank got water in it. Cyano appeared a few months ago and has been growing insanely right now. It's so gross oh my god.
I dont feed the fish every day, but i do let the pellets fall to the sand bed a bit for my bottom dwellers who eat most of it

 

[mermaid_life]

After you manually remove in a tank, run the water through a filter sock back into the sump.

 

[Ro Bow]

After you manually remove in a tank, run the water through a filter sock back into the sump.

Sound like a good idea thanks

 

[Waters]

I would do a water change at the same time, using syphon to suck out algae as you pull it out. You can run the siphon directly into a sock in the sump if you want to avoid having to change any water at all.

 

[scubaboy]

I would do a water change at the same time, using syphon to suck out algae as you pull it out. You can run the siphon directly into a sock in the sump if you want to avoid having to change any water at all.

Ditto, I do this and it works great.

 

[Ro Bow]

I would do a water change at the same time, using syphon to suck out algae as you pull it out. You can run the siphon directly into a sock in the sump if you want to avoid having to change any water at all.

Thanks. Won't that cause the water in the filter socks to overflow, if the water comes out too fast?

 

[TokenReefer]

It shouldn't come out faster than your overflow unless you're using a really wide siphon tube. You can clip a filter sock to the inside of a bucket too and put that back in afterwards

 

[czoolander]

Could remove rocks when doing water changes and scrub them with brushes into a bucket of old tank water then put the clean rocks back in? I have done that it works really well

 

[Rick's Reviews]

If you 'really' want to get on top of algae
Turn down your lighting intensity, then clean in stages, divide your aquarium into 3 areas (or 4 at least), easiest maintenance is cleaning glass do this first, then remove as much as possible from rocks in stage 1
Turn off powerheads beforehand then do 'hoover of sand bed' repeat in a couple of days

 

[Fishology]

More info:
Tank is 1.65 years old, algae has been here since 2 weeks after the tank got water in it. Cyano appeared a few months ago and has been growing insanely right now. It's so gross oh my god.
I dont feed the fish every day, but i do let the pellets fall to the sand bed a bit for my bottom dwellers who eat most of it

Get a tooth brush and scrape it off it’s good to remove hair algae for and algae if any use a shipon and shipon the sand the beach you can and when you see algae forming stir the sand up

 

[Ro Bow]

If you 'really' want to get on top of algae
Turn down your lighting intensity, then clean in stages, divide your aquarium into 3 areas (or 4 at least), easiest maintenance is cleaning glass do this first, then remove as much as possible from rocks in stage 1
Turn off powerheads beforehand then do 'hoover of sand bed' repeat in a couple of days

Thank you

 

[Ro Bow]

Shoot. Didn't work well. Is it ok to put this water back into the tank?

 

[Ro Bow]

Shoot. Didn't work well. Is it ok to put this water back into the tank?

I guess this means my filter sock isn't that good. Its the red sea one that came with the tank though, so idk. Im probably going to put the water back soon since its the same stuff that was already in the tank? Thanks

 

[Ro Bow]

What should I do? Bump

 

[Ro Bow]

What should I do? Bump

I ran out of salt, i was going to purchase soon, so if i can't use this water my salinity will lower a lot when i put the new water back in

 

[TokenReefer]

yeah put it back in if you haven't already

 

[TokenReefer]

Just noticed you are using a mesh filter sock. You'll get better filtration from a felt sock. The mesh socks let too much pass through