Thoughts?

[Birdman Broham]

I just curious if anybody cleans the glass regularly or if it’s bad due to copepods being on the glass I don’t want to potentially kill any copepods that is on the glass, so I was just wanting to know if you guys had any thoughts or what you personally do to keep your glass clean

 

[Doctorgori]

I have a small colony right now, they can be scraped off…they usually return that day or the next…
Also I’ll sometimes leave a side panel untouched, or in cleaning rotation …
I do this more because some snails like to eat the dusty algae that forms shortly afterwards… Some seem to prefer the harder stuff, but who knows?

 

[Nano_Man]

I never clean the back glass but sides and front get cleaned

 

[Dan_P]

I just curious if anybody cleans the glass regularly or if it’s bad due to copepods being on the glass I don’t want to potentially kill any copepods that is on the glass, so I was just wanting to know if you guys had any thoughts or what you personally do to keep your glass clean

I can’t see how you can kill a nearly microscopic creature while cleaning the glass.

 

[rennjidk]

I can’t see how you can kill a nearly microscopic creature while cleaning the glass.

Just try harder, I believe in you.

 

[Jay'sReefBugs]

Scrapping glass isn't going to harm your colony it simply pushes them into the water colum

 

[exnisstech]

I never clean the back glass but sides and front get cleaned

This is what I do also

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I never clean the back glass but sides and front get cleaned

I’m right there with you

 

[o2manyfish]

The glass is hosting the least amount of your pod population. A great big flat surface with nowhere to hide in plain view of all the critters that like to eat you is pretty much a failure for the theory of survival of the fittest.

All the nooks and crannies in your rocks, the underside of the rocks, in the dark, under corals, that's where the pods flourish.

If you are seeing a decent quantity on your glass it's nothing in comparison to the population within your tank.

I have to wipe the display panels of my 750g every 48 hours. But the pod population when I pull a rock or a dead frag on the underside is huge, And that's with 150 fish, 3 pipefish, 2 Mandarins, 6 wrasses... etc etc

Dave B