how often do you scrape your front glass?

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Usually daily. I can go 2 days but if I wait a week my tank would look like Sheet Metal. :grimacing-face:
 

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3 or 4 times a week.
But it really warrants nearly every day.
 

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I think it depends in the age of the tank and your clean up crew:

Bedroom tank - 3 years old, 55gallons, handful of trochus snails, 2 large turbo snails, and a short spine urchin - twice a week

Basement tanks - 5 years of old, about 10 trochus, 2 turbo snails, and one urchin in each tank (each around 40 gallons) - scrape once a week

Living room tank - 4 years old, 90 gallons, 40-50 trochus snails, 3 large turbo snails, and a tuxedo urchin - I haven’t scraped my glass in around 4 months. Originally I had put 10 trochus in the tank and they reproduced, then died back until they got to a density that’s self sustaining I believe.
What the tank looks like right now:
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I think part of it though is that it feed benereef daily, and it believe it helps with the algae control. All of my tanks are also medium to high flow.
 

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I was just curious how often people here end up scraping their front glass to clean off that light film algae? I feel like I've been using my mag scraper almost daily lately( its not covered but a few spots start up daily now). I stepped up water changes and cut the lighting schedule back to help.
Yeah, every other day for me as well. I do the front and sides to keep a nice tidy viewing area.
 

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Every couple days but I could do daily. Recently picked up the Trident NP phosphates on first few tests read .88 and .83. I’ve recently started seeing some hair algae so I added some Gfo and they are slowly dropping maybe lowering them will help with the hair and glass algae’s.
 

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That's what I thought but some say it's a sign of a healthy tank so I dunno. I'm not going to change anything to try and eliminate it since its the same in all of my tanks so I've just come to accept it. If coral were struggling I would look into it but evething is growing well.
This is another one I cleaned 2 days ago. Coral are growing better than ever
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Maybe you’re feeding too much? What are your phosphates and nitrates?
 

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Weekly. There's not a lot going on in there right now. I leave the back of the tank for the snails to snack! They're doing an excellent job of keeping it tidy right now.
 

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