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How often do have to clean your aquarium glass?

  • Every Day

    Votes: 82 9.9%
  • A few Days a Week

    Votes: 247 29.8%
  • A Couple Days a Week

    Votes: 242 29.2%
  • Once a Week

    Votes: 195 23.6%
  • Every 10 or so Days

    Votes: 49 5.9%
  • Every Couple of Weeks

    Votes: 35 4.2%
  • Other (please explain)

    Votes: 10 1.2%

  • Total voters
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Stainless steel drywall taping knife. 9 bucks at home depot.

Sturdy, wide, and flat. Cleans glass like a champ!

Takes care of:
Film algae
Coraline algae
Spirborid worms


Best piece of aquarium maintenance I've ever bought!
 

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Depending on the system algae gets wiped off between 1 to 3 weeks on average. Beside angling lights at about a 15° - 20° to reduce the amount of light I use paper towels to remove algae from the glass.
 

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Magnet cleaner along glass using the acrylic pads and a scraper along glass at bottom next to sand followed by wiping down the outside with RO water and a clean white cotton t-shirt twice a week.

I like that i can use hotel room cards in the flipper scraper or any plastic card so no need to ever buy replacements. The algae free acrylic pad kit also come in handy and helps with not scraping the glass.

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Looking for the spotlight: Do your fish notice the lighting in your reef tank?

  • My fish seem to regularly respond to the lighting in my reef tank.

    Votes: 59 73.8%
  • My fish seem to occasionally respond to the lighting in my tank.

    Votes: 10 12.5%
  • My fish seem to rarely respond to the lighting in my tank.

    Votes: 6 7.5%
  • My fish seem to never respond to the lighting in my tank.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don’t pay enough attention to my fish to notice if they respond to the lighting.

    Votes: 2 2.5%
  • I don’t have any fish in my tank.

    Votes: 2 2.5%
  • Other.

    Votes: 1 1.3%
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