Had a good little laugh last night. My wife has hated my algae glass that i grew, mostly because this tank is to darn tall for me to care about things not negatively impacting my system. So after a couple weeks of telling her how much i love the look (obviously fabricated to avoid manual labor) we pulled off the canopy and i rigged up my algae scrapping machine.
I take a long section of tubing and zip tie it to a long handled scrapper. The end of the tubing is towards the edge of the blade. I feed the line back into the sump, or bucket, and run it through the little handle thing on a filter sock. This way i can siphon algae without losing water. Works like a charm, kinda.
After hours and hours of scraping, ok maybe 5 minutes... My wife looks up from her phone and lets out an audible "gasp." When i say, hey whats up? She lets me know that i have free floating algae everywhere now! I laugh and say, but hey look at all the crap i filtered out! Not good enough. So not the next 12 hours... ok maybe 10-15 minutes, go by as i move my siphon around the tank capturing much of the free floating debris. I then turn my power head back on and place a filter sock on it to catch even more.
Tank looks better, but not as pure as it did before... o well... pictures later, but for now, here is my garden on the back glass before i did all the work lol...
Love this type of stuff :D
