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Originally Posted by jess128
Recently I've got these light purple dots on the glass that are really hard to scrub off.
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The purple dots of algae on the glass is called Coraline algae (the same purple stuff that's on your rocks).
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Originally Posted by jess128
The substrate is dirty and has some algae spots, there are these brown algae plants growing on 2 of my rocks, and there are always salt deposits on the outside of the glass.
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Salt on the outside glass would lead me to believe that you have a lot of salt spray coming from your tank. Either that or you splash the water onto the glass when you clean the tank. Do you have a lot of microbubbles in your tank that pop and spray a mist of water everywhere?
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Originally Posted by jess128
I'm really frustrated! There's not much of a cleaner crew, just some turbo snails and hermit crabs. Is there anything I can add to help my problems? Any ideas? Thanks.
Jess
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To control your algae problem you must control the root of the problem. I would suggest a few things:
a) regular water changes (preferably with R/O)
b) more snails (Ceriths, Nassisarius, Astrea, Trochus, etc)
c) less feeding
d) more skimming