Algae in glass? How to remove it?

[juanmanuelsanch]

Hi all ! So I have this green film algae in the glass, I usually clean it up once a week. But the one near the bottom of the tank is almost impossible to take out. I have a flipper magnet scratch but hell its very difficult at times.

So what do you guys use?

Its there a way to prevent that from growing?

I see some spotless aquariums and I wonder how they do...

THanks for the help.

 

[Tripod1404]

I use magnetic cleaners with a razor attachment, razor can go very close to the sand bad without the risk of sand scratching the glass.

 

[Sthomasson72]

The flipper magnet works the best with blade

 

[Valentini89]

I've seen cloth in between the magnet and glass at one of my LFS. I guess that's how they keep the sand out.

 

[gffpm1247]

I went to home Depot and bought a 4" scraper. Works well. The cheap one I bought at Petco isn't worth it

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[AlSimmons]

Very carefully? (scrathes/Mag-Float)

Algae growing on the glass between the sand and the panels ain't bad. It happens... If this is a splinter though, who knows what might happen/appear a year later? Hmm...

 

[twitchy]

I use a piece of original formula mr clean magic eraser rubber banded to a plastic rod, works great. Occasionally if there is anything too tough I just use a regular razor blade to scrape it off

 

[juanmanuelsanch]

is there as way to avoid it ?

 

[ericarenee]

I use a heavy duty razor blade it takes less then a hour to clean the whole tank and it seems it stays clean longer then when using the magnet cleaners.. but i use it for caraline algae no green algae in my tank .