goodk
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The glass in the back part of my aquarium seems to encrusted with thick algae if i scrape it off my tank would have to completely broken down and cleaned, is there a chemical i could use to make the algae go away.
Glass encrusted with algae
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I have green hair algae growing on my back glass (no where else though). It is almost like a built in algae scrubber lol
Once there becomes too much of it, I do one of two things.
1) set up a piece of ridged airline hose (maybe 1/2") with a piece of flexible hose attached-making a diy gravel vac. Sometimes I rubber band a razor blade to the end to scrape the glass as I suction the algae out. I run this hose into a filter sock in a 5 gallon bucket. Also in the bucket is a pump (Maxijet works great) that pumps the clean water back into the tank. Most of the time water auctions out at the same rate as the pump puts it back in.
2) other times I use the cheap $10 aquarium vac from Amazon (mr. Toms I think it is called). It works great for bubble algae and does ok for hair algae (stops up too fast).
Once there becomes too much of it, I do one of two things.
1) set up a piece of ridged airline hose (maybe 1/2") with a piece of flexible hose attached-making a diy gravel vac. Sometimes I rubber band a razor blade to the end to scrape the glass as I suction the algae out. I run this hose into a filter sock in a 5 gallon bucket. Also in the bucket is a pump (Maxijet works great) that pumps the clean water back into the tank. Most of the time water auctions out at the same rate as the pump puts it back in.
2) other times I use the cheap $10 aquarium vac from Amazon (mr. Toms I think it is called). It works great for bubble algae and does ok for hair algae (stops up too fast).
