Green algae?

Your fish must want to kill you lol !!! Turn it down man, what are you doing to those little guys

 

Snapped a few photos I have the temp around 80-81 now with the fans. After close inspection it appears the green algae is only in the front glass not the rock or sides of glass? How do I post photos.

 

Underneath the Message field (where you type your post) there is a manage attachments button. Click that then browse to the photos, depending on the size you might need to compress them. Upload them and then post.

 

Unattached a photos this is the only algae on the front glass. I lessens the light time to 4 hours and my params are as follows.
Salinity 1.024
Ammonia 0
Ph 8.3
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 2.5

This is a newly cycled tank
Should I just scrub this off?

 

That is algae that a snail was eating, you can see the trail. Yes, scrape it off. Mag-floats work great.

 

I agree with the others, since you're not keeping corals, correct? - you can cut the lights back. The brownish algae is most likely diatoms and those are the ones that will typically go away on their own (once the silicates in the water are gone)...the green you typically need to scrub off. You didn't mention about whether you're using RO/DI water or not....

Your live rock looks awesome with a ton of coralline on it!

 

The plan is to have a reef tank but its way to early to start with corals my brown algae is gone so just use my scrubbing pad and scrub down the green of the glass and into the water?

 

Yes, cleaning algae off the glass will be something you will do often. I had to do it about every other day in my 120 gal. tank. The snails will feed off the algae on the glass and leave their trail behind. As I mentioned before, Mag-Floats are awesome for getting this algae, scrape it off and your filter will get it.

 

If its just a green film then your ok but if its hair like then u wanna suck it out of tank. Hair will float & die off & spore more gha.

 

It's just slimy to the touch. Will I be scraping fern algae for ever?