Really "Tired" looking Anubias nana

[Proplanter]

I've had this guy for a long time now.. and its really bugging me how lame he is. It seems to still be pretty alive, It has a few uncurling new leaves. However, The majority of the plant is covered with very dark green/ black algae. It seems to be hampering it's growth pretty badly. I was thinking about trimming is down. My first thought is to trim it down to just the rhizome. I figured I'd ask some of the experts here before I took any drastic measures on it.

I've attached a picture of it, the picture is pretty bad (it would be worse if you could actually see it anyway).

[Essabee]

Put it into position without trimming any leaves but the blackened ones which are also yellowing. Wait till you have a flush of new leaves. Now remove all the leaves with black on them.

[Carr]

I have used bleach dips on my anubias, it seems to work well to get the algae to die off. Since they are such slow growing plants, they are more prone to algae than many others and it always seems to be very tough algae that grows on them, impervious to scrubbing. Use a 1:20 ratio for bleach:water, and dip for 3 - 5 minutes. The algae will slowly die off over the next day or so after you dip them, use a lot of dechlorinator to rinse them in before returning to the tank. Only dip the leaves in the bleach.