Tell me about your squeaky clean backside!

[Logan27]

Sometimes I just want to stop cleaning the back side but my ocd won't allow me to

 

[DanConnor]

If its convenient to your setup, put a sheet of black kydex back there, held with small magnets. Then just every so often pull it out and soak it in a tray of acid.

 

[david p.]

clean background!! much better looking, if you dont let coraline grow, it'S easy to maintain.

 

[BreaknBrad]

 

[Kenny719]

I like my all side view. I just clean the glass on all sides when i have to.

 

[don_chuwish]

But for the back wall of my tank I use a long handled scraper. Black back doesn't show buildup very much so sometimes it gets a little out of hand before I get to it.

 

[reefrf]

Keeping the back panel cleaned, scraped & maintained is the way to go, especially with a black back it provides nice contrast to your corals.

 

[Reef Ryder]

When mine got bad I scraped everything off, now I have a stick with replaceable heads, one being a scraper and the other a pivoting sponge, I just clean it every couple of days, takes seconds. I also increased my flow just a bit.

 

[Finatik]

Although I like the look of a clean black glass on the back to really make colors stand out, to try something different, I recently glued a small piece of that on my back glass. I'm hoping it will grow all the way across.

 

[Paul B]

The back of my tank has not been cleaned probably since about 1982.

 

[Black Pearl]

Hopefully I'll fill my tank with SPS and you won't be able to see the back wall

 

[reefrf]

The back of my tank has not been cleaned probably since about 1982.

Hi Paul,
It looks pretty darn clean in this photo! [emoji1]

 

[Paul B]

It has a half inch of growth on it, I just have an algae trough at the surface of the back of the tank and it blocks the light from going there, which I like

 

[atoll]

I have never cleaned my back glass since setting up my latest tank 11 months ago, When I bought the tank it already had a black back glass not that you can see much of it anyway. You can just see a little coralline algae top right on the weir developing.

 

[Steve McGlamery]

I took an aluminum rod and bent it around my magnetic cleaners, it has about a 24' handle,to clean the back glass.

 

[CoralWealth]

Wanted to pump this up. I too really like the back wall but it is hard for me to keep my overflows clean, they seem to cover a lot faster with coralline and are A LOT harder to get clean too. The glass back is really easy with a scraper but the overflow boxes are what I am having problems with.

I am hoping someone has some suggestions on how to get mine clean first and then how do you keep it clean? If I only had one overflow box I would let it go natural but I have two so I want them to stay black and clean. Looking forward to the suggestions