Poll - How often do you clean your front glass?

How often do you clean your front glass?

  • Daily

    Votes: 27 16.4%
  • 3 x per week

    Votes: 64 38.8%
  • 1 x a week

    Votes: 59 35.8%
  • Every 2 weeks

    Votes: 6 3.6%
  • Once a month

    Votes: 3 1.8%
  • Even less

    Votes: 3 1.8%
  • It matters so little I don’t even pay attention

    Votes: 3 1.8%

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GSPClown94

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Snails keep the glass free of any noticeable green algae so I just end up scraping off coralline algae once the spots grow large enough to become annoying.
 

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Clean is the way to go! But daily is far more than I have to clean now which is why I asked the question. It seems cleaning daily is very common.

I would clean daily if I had to but I just don’t.
Hmm
I don't have to clean my reef tank glass daily, but I do anyway. I don't really notice the film algae until day 2 or 3. But it literally takes me 3 min with the big Algae Free magnet cleaner, and my reef is in my office so I'm looking at it all the time. I'm OCD when it comes to my aquariums, especially my reef.
 

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I do once a week (at weekends) when I do the WC. For removing algae (and the spots which are too close to the seams and substrate) a blade is necessary, the magnetic cleaner does the rest of the job nice.
 

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Daily, it's therapy and time for me to look at the fish and tank. You will be amazed by what I find out by doing this little preventive. My swallowtail angel loves the tidbits, My Naso likes to interact with me and this interaction also is so habitual that the fish know what I am doing and aren't skittish.
 

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Was cleaning daily or even twice a day (I like the glass totally clean) when the tank was new and PO4 was around 0.04-0.05 (Hanna ULR). The tank is now over six months and PO4 tends to measure 0.00-0.02 so I can get away with 1x-2x a week. More than any prior tank, the glass on this one is directly correlated to PO4 levels - to the point that I can often tell what the level is just by looking at the front glass.

I was using a Flipper magnet cleaner but it put a few scratches in my front glass. Now I’ve switched to the Tunze magnet and have had no scratches. Should have gone with Tunze from the start.
 

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Well there was a period of ~5 years where it was not cleaned at all, and a piece of blue ridge covered 99% of it.

Now, typically when the coralline obstructs the view enough that it I have trouble seeing... so maybe once per month?
 

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Every Day Mom GIF by Originals
 

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Not as often as I should!
Once every 2 weeks I voted but sometimes it's more or less depending on how lazy or if company is coming.
 

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I love doing it as soon as I see a film, it’s as satisfying as mowing a lawn into stripes. Right now I’m having a big pod boom and I know it’s supposedly OK to clean the glass still, but I feel so bad disturbing them—and my fish are going ham gobbling them up! At least they’re keeping the glass clean-ISH!
 

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