Welcome to Canreef! You can still clean your glass, snails don't clean it very well anyway they just leave "kiss" marks all over it. I give mine a quick clean every 2 days, the longer you leave algae on the glass the harder it is to remove. Starting weekly 10% water changes will help start removing pollutants from the water but there's no need to start disturbing your sand bed too much yet. If you're getting green hair algae you may need to look at your light timing, if sunshine is hitting your tank or abundant phosphates are present in your water to prevent it from getting excessive. Don't worry too much about it, everyone has gone through it. As you can see on this forum we are all learning new things every day and all have trials and tribulations with our tanks. IMO the biggest reason people get out of reefing is from lack of water changes. There is no better thing you can do and if done every week you most likely will have a tank that you can be proud of. Good luck and ask lots of questions!
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05-14-2010, 03:04 AM
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