how often do you scrape your front glass?

[Paul B]

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

 

[PharmrJohn]

With my old tank it was every Wednesay and Sunday. I like schedules!

 

[Calmwaters]

Once a week.

Does anyone know of a good razor holder that extends and the head swivels?

This one works great!
HOTOOLME Aquarium Scraper, 25.6" Stainless Steel Scraper Cleaning Razor with 10 Blades for Glass Aquarium Fish Tank https://a.co/d/09aPDQX9

 

[threebuoys]

Every day. The tangs follow the scraper around the tank to eat the algae. They love to see me coming.

 

[JonoH]

Once a week on my current tank - running a big UV

Every day on my old tank with no UV

 

[David S]

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

 

[RSNJReef]

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:

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.

 

[rdirtytwo]

Every 2 or 3 days, and the morning of water change days.

 

[DarrenArena]

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.

 

[Calmwaters]

So glad I'm not the only one having to do frequent cleaning of the glass. I do every other day when I can but sometimes it's every 3 days.

 

[nano reef]

Once a week but should do more!

 

[dank.reefer]

I usually do it once a week. Sometimes I need an extra wipe down during the week.

 

[Wildcats1023]

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.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Daily

 

[JAS927]

I use the magnet cleaner every second day and scrap with the blade every 2 weeks when I do a small water change.

 

[BillFish Coral Lover]

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

Maybe you’re feeding too much? What are your phosphates and nitrates?

 

[exnisstech]

Maybe you’re feeding too much? What are your phosphates and nitrates?

I do feed a lot but nutrients are good to low. Last sunday the first image NO3 1.2 and PO4 0.04 second pic NO3 0.0 (dosed) PO4 0.05

 

[AlyciaMarie]

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.

 

[Jeremy_d]

I use a mag float daily and once a week I use the algae free mag scraper to really polish it up.

 

[jayala12]

Once a week. Thats just flavor for the snails. Like kool aid