Newbie: What is this on my sand

[malx]

How do you eliminate silicates?

RO/DI maybe?


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[Willyboz1]

Same boat. I guess I'm going to get some cerith snails

 

[That New Guy]

Removing the algae manually, as much as possible, will eliminate a lot of the silicates and reduce the growth of the algae. Eventually there won't be enough in the water for it to continue spreading and it will die off.

 

[SFish]

How do you eliminate silicates?

If you have high silicates in your tap water then you can use this

 

[mpyers]

If you want to kill it fast turn your lights off for a week. Then do a good water change and siphon out the dead. But as said, they'll die on their own soon.

 

[SFish]

There is also stuff like this

 

[SFish]

But I would only use stuff like that if you have a continuous problem regardless of using RO/DI water.