Emergency MTRC meeting

[schooleyosis]

Seems like you're on the right track now. Hope it works out and you start to see an improvement soon.

 

[greg0385]

I dont know if i am just yet, way too early to know that, but with the help of the club members i will be able to make it.

 

[greg0385]

First test experiment-The container that has 350+tds is reading 0% salinty on the refract.

2nd test is to drain and clean the brute W/C container and refill with 0tds water and see if any tds show up over some time.

Should have results of 2nd test later today.

 

[meintn]

Sounds like you're on the right track! I'm sure all this will help. Good luck!

 

[rcmike]

Is this the container that has salt residue in it? If so, it probably will never read 0 TDS due to dissolving the salt.

Btw, not all well water is high in CO2. I drill them for a living and the water can vary greatly. I used mine for years with no RO on it with great results. I have since put one on it but still do water changes with well water if I'm in a hurry.

 

[6272862829]

An algae scrubber will remove all of that. Greg make you an algae scrubber it's cheap and effective

 

[greg0385]

Is this the container that has salt residue in it? If so, it probably will never read 0 TDS due to dissolving the salt.

Btw, not all well water is high in CO2. I drill them for a living and the water can vary greatly. I used mine for years with no RO on it with great results. I have since put one on it but still do water changes with well water if I'm in a hurry.

Yea thats the container im refering too.

I do have high co2 levels as i can only get about 60-90gallons through my DI resin before its exhausted. With this de-gassing setup my DI resin will last a year.

 

[ToXIc]

Happy you found the culprit! Use some sort of macro algae or ATS and it will help pull the CO2 that's left out of your tank.

 

[greg0385]

Happy you found the culprit! Use some sort of macro algae or ATS and it will help pull the CO2 that's left out of your tank.

I got lots of cheato ;)

I dumped the brute container containing the 350tds water. I wiped it down and refilled it with 0tds rodi water. I just tested the water in the container and its reading 2-4tds. Im going to retest it tomorrow to see if the tds rises.

Im still asking people to come down and check things out. The more people who can show up the better i feel.

 

[NeveSSL]

Did you have a chance to test it again, Greg?

Brandon

 

[greg0385]

-Confirmed 0tds from RODI
-Conflicting test results- would like to have more people come down with test kits to get other test results.
-Still thinking there is something in the water,maybe heavy metals or something else(Unconfirmed).
-Stray voltage(less than 20volts without ground probe) dont think thats a issue.
-0 ammonia and 0 nitrite

 

[schooleyosis]

The Poly Filter Pad will tell you if you have any metals or anything in the water.

Did you mean 20 mV without a ground probe?

 

[greg0385]

The Poly Filter Pad will tell you if you have any metals or anything in the water.

Did you mean 20 mV without a ground probe?

Idk, i had Daniel holding the meter and the one probe in the water. he was telling me to plug the the other probe into the outlet. I will ask him to see which it is.


Hopefully the poly pads arrive soon as im running out of issues to point the finger at.

 

[Dowtish]

No, what he means is a grounding probe that you keep in your tank at all times.

Like this: Titanium Ground Probe

 

[greg0385]

Im confused :-/

Yes i have a titanium ground probe in my sump.

We unplugged the ground probe to test for stray voltage and he said 20volts. Idk if that meant mV or not.

I then plugged my ground probe back in.

 

[p woodard]

If you have a grounding probe in your tank stray voltage means nothing grounding probe will get it out or should

 

[Dowtish]

A grounding probe is just going to keep you from getting shocked. Its not going to eliminate stray voltage in the tank. Once you got the reading that you did, you are supposed to then start unplugging your equipment one plug at a time to see what is putting off the voltage.

 

[NeveSSL]

20 volts is normal and nothing to worry about as you are probably measureing AC coupling from your pumps and what not.

Brandon

 

[greg0385]

Exactly.

Still needing people to come down and to bring test kits.

Daniel's test kits and mine are ready different #s
Salinity
Phosphates
Alk

Need some other test done to see what are my true params

Im prob going to buy a hanna phosphorous(ppb) kit since its low range vs my hanna phosphate kit(ppm)

Looking for a different refractometer, mine is hard to read as the numbers are really vs Daniel's that was easily readable. Might even get a digital refract.

 

[Dowtish]

I dont think you need to to get the ppb hanna checker as I have had my phos read as high as 0.27 and suffered no color loss or deaths of any of my acros.

I am also considering getting a digital refractometer as mine is always needing to be calibrated and I have read good things about the Milwaukees.