It's a major part of the food chain in the ocean.

In the reef tank, snails eat it. Turbo snails will
starve to death if there is not enough diatoms to
eat. Many fish eat it, leaving kiss marks on the
glass. There are worms that eat it, and when it gets
stirred up, many kinds of filter feeders eat it.
Free phytoplankton.


Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


KurtG wrote on 5/17/2007 8:08 AM:
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