Should I stick to the 7 day cleaning rule for my screen?

[chriswf]

I clean my screen every Monday now.
Buuut, since Monday (a good thorough cleaning), Algae has completely covered my screen again. I don't want it to block light out from the base of the algae - because I heard that increases "detachment".

Should I wait till Monday? Because it already looks thick in the screen.
I really don't know if this a normal algae blooming rate.

[SantaMonica]

Experiment to see how long you can go before the roots die.

[chriswf]

What's a good way to tell if they're "dead"?

The longer the algae is on there, the better?

[SantaMonica]

Dead will look like wheat and will fall off.

Yes the longer that living algae in on there, the better the filtering.

[chriswf]

Cool thanks for the gift of knowledge Santa.

[Floyd R Turbo]

FW grows faster and not as thick. You don't get the really thick 3D growth with FW so light-blocking is not so much of a factor as length of the strands it. They grow very long and the water flow will pull them off.