Silica gel

[Brian barranco]

Can I use Silica gel to dose silicate In reef tank?

 

[cale0721]

Why do you want to dose silica to your reef tank?

 

[Brian barranco]

Why do you want to dose silica to your reef tank?

Fighting dinos . And that’s the only way I 100% removed them. Do you have a answer

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Fighting dinos . And that’s the only way I 100% removed them. Do you have a answer

Presumably that may work by driving diatoms that outcompete the dinos for some sort of trace element, or less likely, space on surfaces.

If going that route, I'd avoid water changes and trace element dosing.