Diatoms

kim gross wrote:
Normally Diatom blooms come from Silca.

Silica, right? Silicon dioxide which acidifies when dissolved in water.

And your water source is
normally the main source of diatoms.

You meant silica again, right?


Are you using RO/DI water? If not
I would be willing to bet that you have silca in your water source and
that is causing the diatom bloom.

Interesting. I heard that silica doesn't belong in a reef aquarium, but
I never knew why.

--Kurt

KurtG wrote:

Interesting. I heard that silica doesn't belong in a reef aquarium, but
I never knew why.

--Kurt

I don't understand what the big deal is. Diatoms are harmless.

Silica is not even close to silcates. Silicates make problems silcia
is inert and comprises 97% of all ocean bottom and beach sands.




On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:04:13 -0500, KurtG
wrote:

kim gross wrote:
Normally Diatom blooms come from Silca.

Silica, right? Silicon dioxide which acidifies when dissolved in water.

And your water source is
normally the main source of diatoms.

You meant silica again, right?


Are you using RO/DI water? If not
I would be willing to bet that you have silca in your water source and
that is causing the diatom bloom.

Interesting. I heard that silica doesn't belong in a reef aquarium, but
I never knew why.

--Kurt



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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

"Tristan" wrote in message
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Silica is not even close to silcates. Silicates make problems silcia
is inert and comprises 97% of all ocean bottom and beach sands.

Beat up any old granmothers today yet tristan? punch them in the face eh?
Why yo udont attack the men?
remeber before you lose ISP tristan when you were Roy? Wich old granny this
one was, eh?

"Roy" Tristan wrote in message
...
I used to use a product called a Windsong, it was later changed to
the name of Roy Mckoi, and then later it became a Roy lo.......but
its genetically known as a Roy Wolf. It worked fine except yu had
to keep holdiing its head under while it sucked up the skum. Perhaps a
few bricks or weights around the neck of that device would make it
work better.......



On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:04:13 -0500, KurtG
wrote:

kim gross wrote:
Normally Diatom blooms come from Silca.

Silica, right? Silicon dioxide which acidifies when dissolved in
water.

And your water source is
normally the main source of diatoms.

You meant silica again, right?


Are you using RO/DI water? If not
I would be willing to bet that you have silca in your water source
and
that is causing the diatom bloom.

Interesting. I heard that silica doesn't belong in a reef aquarium,
but
I never knew why.

--Kurt



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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

Yep, Since "silica" is shorter than "silicon" one would
tend to think that "silica" was the name for the element,
instead of "silicon" But "silicone" is the element. Now
why couldn't scientist have done a better job of naming? :-)


Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Tristan wrote on 1/10/2007 5:06 PM:
Silica is not even close to silcates. Silicates make problems silcia
is inert and comprises 97% of all ocean bottom and beach sands.




On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:04:13 -0500, KurtG
wrote:

kim gross wrote:
Normally Diatom blooms come from Silca.

Silica, right? Silicon dioxide which acidifies when dissolved in water.

And your water source is
normally the main source of diatoms.

You meant silica again, right?


Are you using RO/DI water? If not
I would be willing to bet that you have silca in your water source and
that is causing the diatom bloom.

Interesting. I heard that silica doesn't belong in a reef aquarium, but
I never knew why.

--Kurt



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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!