Hi to all!
I clean only my front glass weekly. I just let algae (GSA and a bit of GDA) and biofilm grow on the other sides. I am a bit lazy and moreover I wanted to leave some free food for snails and now for my Otos. They were so skinny when I bought them, now they are pretty fat, they look like tadpoles! But the thing is I am getting BBA too on the rear and side glass recently.
About plants, GSA and BBA are only growing on old leaves, mainly of the slow growers. I keep removing those leaves, I remove organics from substrate etc and I am working on my CO2/ferts/lights things. But, excluding aesthetic reason, letting algae grow on the glass makes them "stronger"? I am afraid that it might make me harder to grow plants with little or no algae on their leaves if I have a colony on the glass.
I clean only my front glass weekly. I just let algae (GSA and a bit of GDA) and biofilm grow on the other sides. I am a bit lazy and moreover I wanted to leave some free food for snails and now for my Otos. They were so skinny when I bought them, now they are pretty fat, they look like tadpoles! But the thing is I am getting BBA too on the rear and side glass recently.
About plants, GSA and BBA are only growing on old leaves, mainly of the slow growers. I keep removing those leaves, I remove organics from substrate etc and I am working on my CO2/ferts/lights things. But, excluding aesthetic reason, letting algae grow on the glass makes them "stronger"? I am afraid that it might make me harder to grow plants with little or no algae on their leaves if I have a colony on the glass.
