Clean it or leave it alone?

Hi, i had 2 quick question i cant find any information about this,
Do you clean the rear glass or do you leave it alone?
I would like to know if by cleaning it you help your aquarium or affect it?

 

i usually just leave it alone but every 5-6 months i will take a sponge and clean it but i never remove any of the coraline that grows on the back

 

i leave mine, but then again there is never more than a film of algae on it. i figure it gives my snails a tasty treat.

 

I clean the rear glass on my mantis tank because it looks gross and I don't have any snails to do it.

My reef tank has 3-sided viewing so I most certainly clean the "back" of it. The side that is against the wall is too short to worry about since it is half covered with the over flow anyway.

 

Personally I don't clean mine. But I think it's all just preference. I don't have the back of mine painted or anything and it's up against a wall so it's too hard to get to to worry about anyways.

As for it affecting the aquarium, no. It's just like cleaning the front of your glass.

 

i painted the back of my tank black. i feel like if i take a magfloat to it, it may scrape the paint off the smooth glass. and its to tuff getting behind my rocks with my hand.

 

I take a scrapper to mine about every other week. This is manly beacuse i don t like the look of coraline anywhere but on my rocks.

 

I clean the front glass and leave the rest for the snails...

 

a couple time i would clean mine, but i just gave up because scraping the coraline off the back would just cause it grow back faster on the front of the glass faster.

i wish there was someway i could kill coralline with out harming corals

 

What she said......