Can someone help me identify whats going on in my tank!

[miadoll_xo]

So this stuff has started to form on my substrate .. It's an orangey copper colour. My water parameters are all at 0.. Ph 8.2 please help!

 

[Sniperhank]

Diatoms. Feed off silicates in the sand. Seen in early tanks or after a big sandbed disturbance. They always burn themselves out. If it becomes thick and red, is cyanobacteria.

 

[miadoll_xo]

Thanks.. How do I get rid of it? Or should I leave it? It doesn't look too nice

 

[Sniperhank]

It'll go away on its own and should never come back. I've read accounts of it coming back with a major disruption of the sandbed, but never experienced this myself as I don't disturb my sandbed...