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I doubt that silica is the problem. I'd look for some other cause. The water for changes can have a wide range of nutrients in it.
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The Silica could be leaching from the sand.
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Silicates are naturally found in water, many different phosphate "removing" filtration materials will bind them with phosphates. Once you bind them you must "catch" the silicates in a filter material. This could be accomplished with a substance like gfo and filter paper in the effluent of the in line filter for an example.
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Just an fyi, as a water operator, if you call the water department they may or may not test your water since silicates arnt regulated in most places. If they do you will most likely pay a decent fee for this. Your best bet is to call up a local lab that is certified for water analysis and just have the test run.
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The specific person you would want to speak with is your licensed water operator. If your lucky someone else might have half a clue what goes on with your water but ime usually they don't. The water operator is the person legally responsible to ensure you have quality water if they don't the state can and will revoke their license. If you miss one half credit hour by a day for continuing education they revoke it and you have to sit the boards again, it's something the state and feds don't mess around with. My point is that person absolutely has to be responsible for quality and information, it's what their paied to do. If you can get in contact, that's the person you want. That's who you want your friend to put you in contact with. If it's a big plant there may be more than one licensed operator but there always has to be one specic lead operator in charge of process control decisions.
Out of curiosity, what is your po4 out of the tap? They could be adding an ortho-polyphpsphate for squstration of metals like iron or mangnese or just for corrosion control. I've seen these run up to 8.00ppm at tap and that could absolutely use up your filter within a few (10-20) gallons if your using one of those little aquarium units. Sent from my E6810 using Tapatalk |
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I don't know where that thread is, but a diatom filter is just a very fine mechanical filter. It can do a lot to remove particulates from the water column.
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Okay Thanks, I'm just researching to create an artillery against algae in my display. I'm hoping that targeting algae growth with more light than my display will overpower algae growth.
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A diatom based filter uses diatomaceous earth as the filter bed and is almost pure silica. Don’t use one unless you are sure silicate is not your problem as this type of filter produces silicate in significant quantities.
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Good call. I'm trying to remove silicates beyond rodi.
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i too have a high silica problem. starting to get little tube worms that I beleive build thier tubes from silica? i feed rods and mysis. are there foods oout there with lower silicate? did you have luck with the silica buster filert or is plain GFO the answer?
05-17-2021 Ammonia (NH3-4) Good 0.01 0.000 - 0.050 mg/L 05-17-2021 Nitrite (NO2) Good 0.01 0.000 - 0.100 mg/L 05-17-2021 Phosphate (PO4) Good 0.16 0.000 - 0.250 mg/L 05-17-2021 Nitrate (NO3) Good 2.5 0.000 - 25.000 mg/L 05-17-2021 Silica (Sio2-3) High 3.1 0.000 - 0.500 mg/L 05-17-2021 Potassium (K) Good 380 350.000 - 450.000 mg/L 05-17-2021 Boron (B) NA NA 3.000 - 6.000 mg/L 05-17-2021 Molybdenum (Mo) High 0.5 0.000 - 0.300 mg/L 05-17-2021 Strontium (Sr) Good 6.71 5.000 - 12.000 mg/L 05-17-2021 Magnesium (Mg) Good 1239 1100.000 - 1400.000 mg/L 05-17-2021 Iodine (I) Good 0.06 0.030 - 0.090 mg/L 05-17-2021 Copper (Cu) Good 0.04 0.000 - 0.100 mg/L 05-17-2021 Alkalinity (meq/L) Good 2.53 2.500 - 5.000 meq/L 05-17-2021 Iron (Fe) NA NA 0.000 - 0.010 mg/L 05-17-2021 Calcium (Ca) Good 425 350.000 - 450.000 mg/L
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