Hair Algae

I mentioned earlier that I had a hair algae problem. I am not sure why people hate this algae so much, it is actually rather pretty. It is growing on my sand, and looks like little tufts of sea grass. It is also growing on my return pipe, and powerhead. I kind of like the looks of it, it gives the aquarium a natural look, which is what I am going after. It will go away as soon as every thing balances out, and the aquarium matures. I will also be getting snails, and other creatures that will eat it. Right now it is helping me to maintain a very large population of copepods, there are thousands of them on the front glass. According to every thing I have read, the population of copepods will eventually crash. But if they do not crash, and I can maintain this level of copepods, I will be getting a couple of mandarin gobies.

I will not get these until I am satisfied that my copepod population is stable, and even then I will try my best to get them to take frozen food as well. Anyway, these are my favourite fish, but I refuse to get one until I am absolutely positive I can sustain them.

I will be doing some updates in the near future about the different animals that have shown up in my aquarium.

I have not shown any pictures as of yet, because my tank is going through the various algae blooms. I have tons of copepods on the front glass, and have not wanted to disturb them. So I have not been cleaning the glass very often, the front glass is very cloudy and has algae growing on it. It is not the best environment for taking pictures. Once everything stabilizes I will clean the glass and snap some pictures.