Diatoms outbreak

[Freddyprince]

Now it has become worst. The water has also turned brown.

[Lee Hon Myung]

bro, i am also fighting diatoms now. doing water change every other day + running phosban reactor seem to stop the spread.

try not to overfeed your fishes and minimise lights if you can

[Freddyprince]

I am running phosphate reactor and biopellet. But I think the media will exhaust out very fast also. Just hope the silicate in the tank runs out

[Ian Fun]

Diatoms are largely due to silicates which comes from dead or dying sponges and crap on your life rock thats decaying. Tap water and the quality of substrate you are using causes release of silica as well. Water changes and siphoning would help...but i would just wait it out and let them starve themselves.

IME it doesnt affect livestock in there because ive made the mistake of assuming the cycle was over when the surprise algae assaults happened one after another. When i see green algae i usually toss in some snails and CUC. Hair algae was plaguing me for awhile and then all was great till cyano came along (its getting better though T_T)