Drilling and silicates?

[Jonathan Troutt]

hey guys so I recently installed a eclipse overflow and had to drill from the inside of the tank. I drained most of the water from it and used a towels to catch most of the runoff but at the end of it I still had quite a bit of the ground glass powder get in my tank. I then grabbed a vac and removed most of it that I could. Anyway. A few days after I did this I started having a Dino bloom. I’ve read that Dino’s like silicates. Could the waste from drilling have caused this?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Glass can dissolve and higher surface area will accelerate it, but I wouldn’t be sure this added appreciably to the overall silicate cycle in the aquarium.

 

[Jonathan Troutt]

So just cowinkydink that the dink bloom happened afterword?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

So just cowinkydink that the dink bloom happened afterword?

Maybe. [emoji3]

 

[Jonathan Troutt]

Haha I mean it’s my luck. Lol.