A club for owners of Parrot Cichlids

please help... my tank have many kinda white tiny worm stick arount the glass, how am i get rid of them, my tank is about 120gl and i changed water 40gl every two week, clean filter every 2days..

I have alot of algae in my tank. I keep the front glass clean but the sides, back&gravel are covered. It is even over my live plants. The occupants of the tank are a parrot&a pleco.

I was thinking of leaving off the light & covering the tank with a blanket for a few days. I would lift the blanket just long enough to feed the parrot. What do you think ?

Thank you all for the advice on all the algae that appeared in my tank. I got sick of looking at it for almost 2 weeks and finally laid out the cash for a diatom filter after getting so-so results with other methods. I can't say enough about how GREAT my tank looks - clean sparkly water and the tank looks like new. My 4 BPs: Sunny (the newest little yellow bp), Tom&Jerry (the big guys) and the Andrew fish (medium guy), and the pleco (shadow) seem so happy. The snail isn't green anymore eithe (his entire shell was covered with algae)!

Hi! I have been reading from this forum for a few months and have found a ton of great info here. I'm hoping someone can help with my strange situation. I set my 50 gal tank up about 8 weeks ago and put my BP and 3 gourami in about 6 weeks ago. Around 2 weeks ago my BP had the black spots and broke out in a case of ick. I was able to treat the ick with something called "super ick cure" and both problems cleared up. During the treatment I took the carbon out and it turned my water blue.