How to Remove Natural Silicates

Silicates in seawater and aquarium water can cause problems to the balance of the aquarium system. In particular, the high level of silicates in sea water may cause a diatom bloom, which is also called brown algae. There are several ways of removing silicates from the water and several ways to prevent them from entering the aquarium system, and it will be not enough to clean the aquarium with the aquarium magnetic glass cleaner regularly.

1. Use only reverse osmosis and deionized water or distilled water. Reverse osmosis forces through a very fine mesh to remove almost all the pollutants, however, the silicates can pass through the BOYU aquarium filter but will be removed by deionizer’s resin. You can buy reverse osmosis / filter deionizers on the Internet and in some specialty stores aquarium.

2. Only use Aragonite sand in the aquarium. Play sand from the hardware store, usually made of silicates and silicate sand will get into the water.

3. Let the diatoms grow. Diatoms are from silicates in the water, and you can allow them to flourish and delete them using a siphon them with stones and glass. This will remove the silicates from the water. If you have a sump (filtration system) set up with your aquarium, you can let the diatoms flourish in the sump and the main tank.

4. The use of iron oxide of iron in the filtration system. This will remove both silicates and phosphates, key chemicals needed by algae to thrive. Iron oxide iron is sold under several brands for use in aquariums. Frequent changes of substance need to prevent silica from leaching into the water.