How to Get Algae Off Aquarium Glass
- 1). Purchase a long-handled algae scrubber (pad or scraper) designed specifically for either glass or Plexiglas, depending on the type of material from which your aquarium is made.
- 2). Place the scrubber against the glass and move it up and down to get rid of the algae. Continue around each side of the aquarium until you have removed all of the algae from the glass.
- 3). Use a magnetic algae glass cleaner each time you change your water in the future to keep the glass clean. This is a distinctively designed algae cleaner that uses magnetized cleaning pads. A pad is placed on the inside and then controlled with another pad placed on the outside of the fish tank. The inside pad moves and cleans the glass as you move the outside the pad. This type of a glass-cleaning system works best on aquariums that do not have a heavy buildup of algae.
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