Wayne Sallee wrote:
KurtG wrote on 5/15/2007 8:07 AM:
Okay, I give up. Why do you encourage diatoms?

It's a valuable part of the food chain.



Could you elaborate? I'm curious.

I think I may have just panicked for nothing, but I do have all my
maintenance done w/ shiny clean powerheads, skimmer, and hoses. :-)

I really like muriatic acid for cleaning Ca carbonate. Much faster.

--Kurt