29 reads and no answers? I thing we are all having some sort of problems with this.

A couple pictures might help. I always had good luck with emerald crabs to help with GHA, they are real cheap at Boardroom.
Bill

ok i guess I could get some pics.
I dont think emerald craps would help, its just on the glass and that one coral. I got pleantly of snails cleanin the glass, and I scrub it every once in a while.

Just throwing out ideas... do you clean your glass daily with a mag-float or something. You shouldn't get heavy algea growth on the glass if you do. I thought the emerald crab would work because I have one that lives in my pink birdsnest coral and is constantly cleaning it up whenever something gets caught in it.

the last major problem I had with algae - i cleaned up with a few units of chemipure.. it never hurts, then put a larger skimmer on the tank (a shorty 5000). as far as the brush goes, i would just try to do gently with a very worn out toothbrush - gently. if you don't, the coral will die anyway.

I recently learned Money Cowries are supposed to help with this issue....how effective I'm not sure as I have just learned of them.

Im gonna have to agree with 180reefer on this one. This method pretty much starves the algae and it will die off. If it doesn't work with chemipure, use chemipure elite.

Jeovani

nevermind about this, the algea is getting less and less aggressive and starting to go away. I did use an old toothbrush and brushed it a little. I also put the coral in high flow.

I do use a mag float to clean algea, I do it as soon as algea starts to appear on the glass.