I have a 55G that has a L66 and a jewel. I have kept up on water changes and cleaning the canister but not done so well of keeping the glass clean, lets be honest you couldn't see in the tank, simply because of where its at it was hard to really clean.
I finally stopped being cheap/lazy and bought a mag float. I cleaned the glass and I was amazed at how freaking big my L66 got he was super fat, and I thought he was a carnivore. He grew more in the past 2 months of me not cleaning any of the glass then he has in the past year and half that I have had him.
Any ways let the flaming begin.
I finally stopped being cheap/lazy and bought a mag float. I cleaned the glass and I was amazed at how freaking big my L66 got he was super fat, and I thought he was a carnivore. He grew more in the past 2 months of me not cleaning any of the glass then he has in the past year and half that I have had him.
Any ways let the flaming begin.
I don't think you are neglecting your fish at all by not cleaning the algae off the glass. IMO cleaning the glass is more for us then the fish. Its probably better with all that algae soaking up the nitrates. Your tank kind of reminds me of one of those algae scrubber, just in a bigger scale. Although I think you should do a water change if you ever decide to do a major scrub down because it will put back all stuff the algae absorbed.