The Beauty Of Diatoms

[CichlidLover]

While most tropical fish hobbyists consider the brown diatoms which populate many aquariums to be unsightly, geometrically-speaking, they are actually quite interesting and beautiful. I was just reading an article about them on the Wikipedia website, which you can read here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatoms

Enjoy...if you can get past the heavy science!