New owner needs advice

Phil1970

New Member
Hi,
I'verecently purchased a 2 year old mini reef in a red sea max 130D.
The previous owner was struggling with work etc to keep on top of cleaning etc.
The reef is in good health the fish nd various animals, cleaner shrimps, turbo snails, hermit crab, starfish nd more.
However, I seem to have a lot of algae especially on the sand, the previous owner said he's had the problem since he changed water supplier and that all I need to do is suck it up when doing a water change nd replace the sand, however I thought the whole point was for it to be self cleaning nd I didn't want to disturb the things living in the sand (although there isn't much depth to the sand base) - any ideas?
Also the smoked glass at the back of the tank hasn't been ckeaned in over 6 months, there is a lot of growth of various things - should I clean it or just leave it, everything seems really happy nd I don't wanna mess it up but the growth at the bottom of the glass is moving to the sand.
If anyone can spare a few minutes to reply with any ideas I'd be very grateful.
 
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