Glass Algae help

[childress5tyler]

The only algae I ever get in my tank is on my glass and I have no idea what is causing it. My NO3 is 0 (salifert) and my PO4 is 0 (Hanna checker). I run my halides for 7 hours a day and my bulbs are fairly new. I've got no idea what is causing it. Anybody else have this problem and a possible solution?

 

[Reefing Madness]

Everyone has to wipe thier glass down. What kind of algae are we talking about here?

 

[childress5tyler]

True, but it seems mine seems to grow at an expedited pace. It's typically just the green glass algae. I can't think of the name of it though

 

[NanaReefer]

Any chance your tank is near a window?

 

[childress5tyler]

My blinds are always shut in the room. Maybe a little light penetrates but very little

 

[Reefing Madness]

Do your lights hit the glass directly? In spots where mine hits, it grows quicker than the rest.

 

[childress5tyler]

No not directly, but I've got good spread on my lights

 

[AlexG]

Do you have a refuge tank growing algae? There is a normal amount of algae growth in all tanks. I always found that having a place like a refuge tank with 24x7 lighting will allow algae to grow and soak up nutirents in the water that might not read as nitrates or phosphates. Do you have a picture of the algae growth before and after cleanings with a time period between cleanings? What do you have for a cleanup crew I.E. snails?

 

[childress5tyler]

Have a fuge with plenty of cheato, ulva, etc. (gotta keep it stocked with live food for my purple tang). Like probably everybody else, my macro grows like crazy and I have to trim it up from time to time. As far as a picture, I do not have one at the time. I'm going to do a water change tomorrow and add some rowaphos (sp?) just to see if that eliminates it at the source.

 

[childress5tyler]

As far as a cleanup crew, I have approximately 4 turbos (I like to keep them lightly stocked), 10 large nassarius, 6 or so astreas, and an uncountable number of trochus snails. I've had a ton of luck with trochus as I get a good breeding out of them monthly. Also, I have red scarlet hermits, blue knuckle hermits, and a few blue leg hermits

 

[Palting]

What do you consider to be an expedited pace? My 3+ y.o. tank has 0 nitrates, 0 phoshates, large dedicated refugium, no algae problems, and I do scrub the glass algae 2X-3X a week.

 

[childress5tyler]

Hmmm, I guess I'm in your same position. I scrub it 2x a week.

 

[mclevenger10]

You can also try and cut back feeding a bit, it might help. But I don't think you are in trouble by any means. Is your glass completely covered?