Need aquarium advice

[camille1585]

I need some advice from those of you who keep aquariums. We have a really bad problem with algae everywhere in the tank. It’s not the standard algae that’s easy to deal with. This stuff is tufts of blackish-brownish-greenish stuff that grow in clumps on the plants, the decorations and everything else. It’s not a light problem, nor water quality or anything else that we looked into. So we’ve decided to completely restart the tank. The fish are getting moved to a temporary aquarium while that’s being done. But my question is, how do I kill and clean off the algae on the glass? I don’t want it to grow back from leftover pieces when the tank is restarted. I’m hesitant to use any chemicals to clean it out. Any advice?