“Seachem PhosGuard works really well in removing silicates as well as phosphate which we know leads to that brown algae. I am using PhosGuard in a newly planted tank as a test run for my 6-footer that I am building the silicates were very very high.
PhosGuard has brought it down to hardly any in a matter of a week. So you can really say goodbye to Silicates and phosphate that help form Diatoms that ugly brown algae that appear in newly set-up tanks after about one to three weeks.”