On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:28:59 -0600, Reel McKoi wrote:

* Which is the right bulb in preventing red and green algae? And are they
guaranteed to work? If one doesn't work do I have to keep buying and
throwing out one bulb after another? I honestly never heard of a bulb that
allowed aquarium plants to thrive but not algae.

There is no easy solution to algae. If it's the flat type that grows on
the glass, I just scrape it off the front and leave it on the sides and
back. If it's the hairy type that grows on the plants and the gravel, the
only solution I've found is manual removal. As soon as you see algae on a
leaf, cut off that leaf. I've sometimes removed as much as half of a
plant at one time. They always grow back :-).