Hello Naomi! I appreciate your interest in my little experiment.  I did a little housekeeping in my tank by attempting to siphon up some of the debris left over when I did a small water change.  To my eye it doesn't look much different but I did snip off a few dying leaves so maybe there might be some improvement in my next video update.  That bright green stuff came back almost immediately which confirms what I had been told was in fact a bacteria and not a real algae.  This tank is two months old & I have never had any real algae on the glass or the decorations except this stuff. I am hesitant to disturb the sandbed once I have aquascaped it except in emergency.  I am curious to see what nature will do in the weeks ahead.

--Alex

Hi Naomi welcome !!