Starter advice - help!

[plankton]

If it's sand it will brush off, if it's diatoms it will need a little more effort, but will sort itself out eventually. Have you got any snails or (mainly) vegetarian plecs? They will shift it.

[afc69]

If it's sand it will brush off, if it's diatoms it will need a little more effort, but will sort itself out eventually. Have you got any snails or (mainly) vegetarian plecs? They will shift it.

Hi, no I have some Cherry Shrimp but no snails.

Another question if you please. How do you remove hard to get at algae, on the glass in difficult areas? A toothbrush ?

[fr499y]

toothbrush, scraper, old bank card etc

[Martinspuddle]

How do you remove hard to get at algae, on the glass in difficult areas? A toothbrush ?

Nah!

[plankton]

I used to say "use the wife's credit card", but sometimes it's "the wife" that keeps fish.
I use an old card as I find it easier and quicker than toothbrushes (I do use these for cleaning filter parts though), but on the taller tank I have a magnetic cleaner, which I wish I hadn't got as it tends to pick up grains of sand and scratches the glass. I don't use it often, but the tank does have "a number" of bristlenose ancistrus for that purpose.