You're lucky the otos just disappeared. I've heard tales of them
getting STUCK in the throats of goldfish!

Aglae is a part of aquarium keeping. Sometimes you have some, sometimes
you don't. It makes life interesting. Steer away from the chemicals,
they work but are only temporary. Better to do a little more
maintenance, shield some of the sun light or run the electric lites
fewer hours, and feed a little less. And about lighting, if they get
some sense of day/night you don't really need to run the lights during
the day. Instead, just turn them on for a couple hours at night when
you're home and looking at them.

Also, if you have access to a diatom filter, try running it for 12-24
hours with the fine powdered carbon, it will remove a lot of organics.

Lilly

ps: You spelled it right.

Angrie.Woman wrote:

http://www.2cah.com/netmax/basics/algae/algae.shtml - a very good
algae
primer. If you have questions, the author posts almost daily in
rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc .

As far as adding algae eaters....my inclination is to say no. Plecos
and
Siamese Algae eaters will attack your fish, as they are attracted to
the
slime coating. I had much luck with a pack of ottocinclus (sp?) in
my
tank, until my GF outgrew them. One by one they disappeared. If your
comets
are already big, I doubt Ottos are an option for you either.

A