Hi Kate and others, I am not new member but have been mostly lurking. I live just down the road in Tacoma. :-) I have been keeping planted tanks for about 4 years and have accumulated quite a few by now. Tell us a bit more about your tanks. Lights, substrate, etc. Maybe it is time to think of easing into some ferts. I found I get less algae when I give the plants what they need to grow better and the plants are nicer too. June > Me too, Kate Breimayer in Olympia WA here. > Hello all, nice to see the list going. > Who has a good idea for getting rid of a hard crusty bright green algae > that is so hard it's difficult to scrape off glass with a brand new > razor blade? Have gone through hair algae, greenwater, and slimy green > filamentous algae, this is a new one. Other than this I finally got the > other visible algaes out of my one "big" planted tank. Am afraid to > fertilize :) > Thanks, > Kate B > > dilvish wrote: > >> heh.. seems to be a lot of us lurking in the background. I'm a new member >> as well so Hello there everyone. >> >> Dennis > ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail to majordomo@thekrib.com with "Unsubscribe aga-member" in the body of the message. Archives of this list can be found at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-member/