Time for Drastic Measures

Ok, I'm not really sure quite how drastic they are, but it certainly runs contrary to what I've been doing up to this point. I've been staying away from certain anti-algae products, under the premise that they're a temporary fix, they're not fixing the underlying problem, they can't distinguish between plants and algae, yada, yada, yada.

Whatever.

I'm now subscribing to the philosiphy that you can fix the underlying problem, but as long as there is algae in the tank already (green algaes, not necessarily beard algae), it will not disappear, you will just retard its spread. So the plan is to cut down all the plants with hair algae, remove all the leaves with hair algae, and generally reduce my beautiful plants to smithereens. To help them grow back (algae free), I've gone ahead and thrown some more Flourish tabs in the soil as well as refreshed my yeast factories.

I've simply tired of seeing new growth come in in fairly good shape only to (hypothetically) catch the "algae bug" from neighboring leaves I had previously left alone. We shall see how this progresses.