"Larry Blanchard" wrote in message
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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 :-).
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It's the velvety red (black) algae that covers and smothers the plants. It
doesn't grow on one leaf or a few leaves but covers everything including the
glass and gravel. I scrape it off the glass but can't get it off plants.
They'd be leafless. Then there's the short soft green algae. But there's
not too much of the green stuff. It hit like gangbusters when I changed the
old cool and warm bulbs a few weeks back. They were over a year old. It
could have been a coincidence though. I had something like this happen
about 2 years ago and it disappeared, on it's own, as quickly as it
appeared.
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RM....
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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