I have recently moved and the water from my new well after sitting in my collection barrel for 2/3 days or more will start smelling like laundry you washed and forgot to put in the dryer. The longer it sits....the more it smells, just like the laundry I used for an analogy.
I am pleased with how my tanks are running and the appearance of all corals. Ive been using this water for nearly three months now. My water change schedule is erratic, but it more or less averages 10% weekly, as well as evaporate 3-4% daily. There is some brown slime on the walls of the tanks developing sooner than normal, but I have also been pushing the feeding to extremes that would turn most systems into an algae farm quick, so the little bit of increase in scraping the glass is probably not even related. Other than that it doesnt seem to be harming anything besides I just dont really feel all that good about using stinky water.
I always change the appropriate filters when necessary and keep the TDS around 1 or less. COM-100 meter. I am changing out my 1 micron prefilter way more often than usual just due to visual disoloration, but the rest seem to be getting tired in the usual timeframe. It is surely not one of my collection containers. Trying to resolve this issue I repeatedly cleaned them and used more bleach than in the last couple months than in the entire time I have been in this hobby.
Anybody have any input or similar experience as this?? I imagine it is a bacteria of some kind that most likely is killed as soon as it hits the salt. But regardless of it is harmful or not I am wondering what other step I might be able to take to end up with clean smelling product water.
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I havent been around much for the last few months and after writing this thread I went to pm azdesertrat to take a peek as he is always a go to guy on water quality topics. I noticed he had "moved on". Too bad. If anyone felt like posting or pm'ing me a link to what happened I wouldnt mind reading what went down that resulted in one of the good guys going away. tia
I am pleased with how my tanks are running and the appearance of all corals. Ive been using this water for nearly three months now. My water change schedule is erratic, but it more or less averages 10% weekly, as well as evaporate 3-4% daily. There is some brown slime on the walls of the tanks developing sooner than normal, but I have also been pushing the feeding to extremes that would turn most systems into an algae farm quick, so the little bit of increase in scraping the glass is probably not even related. Other than that it doesnt seem to be harming anything besides I just dont really feel all that good about using stinky water.
I always change the appropriate filters when necessary and keep the TDS around 1 or less. COM-100 meter. I am changing out my 1 micron prefilter way more often than usual just due to visual disoloration, but the rest seem to be getting tired in the usual timeframe. It is surely not one of my collection containers. Trying to resolve this issue I repeatedly cleaned them and used more bleach than in the last couple months than in the entire time I have been in this hobby.
Anybody have any input or similar experience as this?? I imagine it is a bacteria of some kind that most likely is killed as soon as it hits the salt. But regardless of it is harmful or not I am wondering what other step I might be able to take to end up with clean smelling product water.
??
I havent been around much for the last few months and after writing this thread I went to pm azdesertrat to take a peek as he is always a go to guy on water quality topics. I noticed he had "moved on". Too bad. If anyone felt like posting or pm'ing me a link to what happened I wouldnt mind reading what went down that resulted in one of the good guys going away. tia
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