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View Poll Results: How do you keep algae off the glass? | |
Scrub pads/brush
|    | 14 | 16.47% | |
Razor
|    | 9 | 10.59% | |
Magnetic scrubber
|    | 56 | 65.88% | |
Chemicals
|    | 0 | 0% | |
I look through the top
|    | 2 | 2.35% | |
Other
|    | 4 | 4.71% | 
05-01-2007, 09:31 AM
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| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
Posts: 7,324
     |  How do you keep algae off the glass?
Looking at my nasty scrub pad...
How do you keep algae off the glass?
Mental powers?
Your cat's tongue?  | 
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05-01-2007, 10:16 AM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin Age: 24
Posts: 260
Karma: 37
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My mental powers don't seem to work on glass.
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75 G Display, 12 G Refuge, 12 G sump, 1/10 Chiller, Coralife Skimmer, 300 Watts MH 14,000 K, 356 Watts of Actinic PC Lighting, 120 Pounds of Substrate, 109 lbs of Rock.
Corals: Pumping Xenia, colt, Hammer, 4 misc mushroom groups.
Fish: 2 Ocellaris Clowns, Yellow Tang.
Inverts: turbo snails, astrea snails, tiger striped serpent star, sifting star, skunk cleaner shrimp, sally, red ball sponge, 50 or so hermit crabs | |
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05-01-2007, 10:18 AM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 301
Karma: 5
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nor does cursing  | |
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05-01-2007, 12:29 PM
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#4 (permalink)
| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
Posts: 1,294
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Magnetic algae scrubbers for the front of the glass, and when it builds up too much on the sides, I get it with a metal scraper and make sure the tang is around so he can get an algae snack 
Jim
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90 Gallon glass, 135#'s of rock and 2" sand. 2-250w 20k XM metal halides. 2-95 watt actinic VHO, 4 powerheads, Coralife skimmer. Maroon Gold Striped Clown, Blue Chromis, Kole Tang, Pygmy Angel, Serpent Star, Brittle Star,Gorgonians, Mushrooms, Yellow Polyps, Turbo Snails & Blue Legged Hermits. 20 gal sump with Caulerpa, Mag 7 return pump. | |
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05-01-2007, 02:26 PM
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#5 (permalink)
| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 105
Karma: 62
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Same as Diver | |
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05-01-2007, 03:05 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 43
Posts: 3,848
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I have my girlfriend scrape it of and we use it to make a nice fresh healthy salad! Nothing better than some nice hair algae and cyanobacteria mixed in with some Tuna fish and a few carrots with Vinagrette dressing!!!!!
Ya right...
You actually believe that?
I actually have a bowl of Valonia with milk and strawberries!!!! YUM
Come on...you don't actually think I would do that, do ya?
I didn't think so,
seriously, I use a scrub sponge and sometimes a magnet, though the magnets don't work as well IMO! _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
"IF THE PHONE DOESN'T RING...IT'S ME"  jb  | |
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05-04-2007, 07:35 PM
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#7 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
Posts: 3,378
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Razor all the way...though looking through the top was my second choice hah.
I love the feeling I get when I scape all the coraline algae off the front glass, it makes the water pink. _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1x 54W Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x54w Super Actinic Blue 03 T5 HO Flourescent
1x 54W 12000K Aquablue Special T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
100 lbs Fiji Live Rock
65 lbs Live sand
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05-04-2007, 08:31 PM
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#8 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 198
Karma: 31
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i use a mag and a mag scraper all in one works great _________ 60 GAl w/ overflow:
aqua c urchin skimmer:
40 lbs sand with 40 lbs live sand
60 lbs L/R
Livestock: RIP 1 Clownfish 11 blue leg hermit crabs: Clibanarius tricolor 1 turbo snail: Turbo spp. 1 Pyramid top snail: Tectus spp. 2 Nerites: Nerita spp. 2 Aquarium fire worms: Eurythoe sp. many Micro brittle stars: Ophiactis spp.
1 Peppermint shrimp: Lysmata californica  | |
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05-08-2007, 10:53 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 1
Karma: 1
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I told my wife that when it gets dirty that is the sign that we need a bigger tank. I don't think she bought it. | |
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05-08-2007, 12:52 PM
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#10 (permalink)
| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 301
Karma: 5
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I used a credit card last night. ya, im that rich | |
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