Ooops. Water contamination question.

[bmackcw]

I just spilled about 4-5 ounces of Pepsi into my 30 gallon drum of rodi. Drum was full. any chance I can use the water? Would hate to dump 30 gallons.

 

[jstack]

I just spilled about 4-5 ounces of Pepsi into my 30 gallon drum of rodi. Drum was full. any chance I can use the water? Would hate to dump 30 gallons.

Hehe I'm new and last week I had a random tide detergent top plop into my 35g rubbermaid I was going to store in laundry room. I thought my head was going to pop xD I'd dump it and vinager steralize it

 

[cjmdh]

30 gallons = 3840 oz. 5 oz / 3840oz. = 0.13% by volume not sure that is going to make a big difference.

 

[Vdubtech25]

Is it worth the risk tho?

 

[cjmdh]

If it were soap or something I wouldn't put in my mouth I'd be more concerned. But someone with more experience in this game might have a better explanation. [emoji16]

 

[thegrun]

I really doubt it would be an issue (perhaps feed a little algae) but for 30 gallons of water I would sleep better dumping it and starting fresh!

 

[BrianKC]

30 gallons = 3840 oz. 5 oz / 3840oz. = 0.13% by volume not sure that is going to make a big difference.

Dosing just 3 ml of vodka in my 65g tank has a pretty big impact. I'm not sure I'd just go by volume to determine how it might affect things. There's about 18 grams of sugar in 5 oz of Coke. That's about 4.5 teaspoons of sugar. I've read people doing carbon dosing with regular sugar and dose like 1/4 or 1/2 tsp for a 55 gallon tank. So, you dosed almost 17 times that ratio of sugar to your TO water. Not to mention all the other stuff that's in Coke.

IMO, I'd dump it, rinse it, and make new water.

Ps, I haven't thoroughly researched using sugar for carbon dosing so no one should use my figures to plan sugar dosing.

 

[cjmdh]

OK, dump it. [emoji3] I was thinking about the sugar as an organic carbon source but forgot how much was in a soda.

 

[disc1]

I wouldn't be too concerned about the sugar. It's the phosphoric acid (read phosphate) that would lead me to dump it.