Cleaning out the fish

[fire]

So, I decided to turn my loop into an aquarium, and now I need to clean all the parts. This was sarcasm. No real fish in here. The fish would die. No one likes dead fish. All I meant was that things were growing in my loop. :)

It looks pretty nasty and brownish in there. Will I be able to clean it all with distilled water, or am I going to need to isopropyl the crap out of everything? Or is there some other way to clean it all up?

[[XC] gomeler]

Wait.. huh? This thread needs pictures asap! :up: If there is a lot of biological gunk in the radiator you'll need to flush it a lot of times, hot water would be a good start.

[iandh]

Yep, thread is useless without pics


Also, depends on what coolant you used

[road-runner]

Definitely http://www.curevents.com/vb/images/smilies/worth.gif

[fire]

These are from a post I made a long time ago when it started to get bad...just nasty colored water. No coolant in there but distilled water - going to do the pentosin/distilled thing next.

Those pictures are still accurate, save that its a bit darker now. :P

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2445638&postcount=6

[road-runner]

Where are the http://img118.exs.cx/img118/4022/fishmlt0ha.gifhttp://danishbits.org/pic/smilies/fish.gif

[Waymon3X6]

Eww man, is that distilled water? Did you mix anything with it?

[Big_Daddy]

Yeah, you still need algaecide. Pentosin doesn't kill the algae, just makes the water look pretty, and it keeps corrosion at bay.

[headala]

Yeah, I can't find the fish either. Did you mean sea-monkeys?

[Navanod]

My advice...
test with ONE fish before putting all in

if it turns belly up, you an scrap the idea and just get a proper tank...
there're metal ions that're toxic to fishes...

[NaeKuh]

Yeah, you still need algaecide. Pentosin doesn't kill the algae, just makes the water look pretty, and it keeps corrosion at bay.

actually pentosion is a antimicrob which does fit algaecide. It just takes more concentration of it.

Ethylene Glycol is not an anticorrosion agent. Its an antimicrobe. Thats why its very poisionous. It also tweeks the freezing temperature of water.

:yepp:

[fire]

I'll be putting PT Nuke in with the whole mix. Forgot to mention.

But, to the point - boiling water going to be able to clean all the parts? Or should I be ordering some specialty magical cleaner from god?

[HotGore]

I'll be putting PT Nuke in with the whole mix. Forgot to mention.

But, to the point - boiling water going to be able to clean all the parts? Or should I be ordering some specialty magical cleaner from god?

Should. Personally I would bleach the :banana::banana::banana::banana: out of everything.

[Conumdrum]

I would take EVERY part apart as much as you can and soak/wash/scrub in bleach, HOT water, replace the tubing, pull nemo's head out of the pump impeller.

Ack.................... And the rad...poor rad. It's gonna take a lot of hot water/bleach/shake/drain 20 times. You need to get EVERY bit of junk outta there, on everything.

[fire]

Bleach won't hurt the parts or eat away at anything?

[CedricFP]

What are opinions on putting a little 75% isophoryl into the loop?

That's currently all I have in mine besides distilled. Not mixing metals so don't need anti corrosion.

[Jimmer411]

What are opinions on putting a little 75% isophoryl into the loop?

That's currently all I have in mine besides distilled. Not mixing metals so don't need anti corrosion.




Not with all that acrylic

[[XC] NetburstXE]

These are from a post I made a long time ago when it started to get bad...just nasty colored water. No coolant in there but distilled water - going to do the pentosin/distilled thing next.

Those pictures are still accurate, save that its a bit darker now. :P

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2445638&postcount=6

Ewwww :down:

[EnJoY]

So wait...let's clear this up, what exactly are your plans? Do you want to combine your watercooling loop with an aquarium? Or, are you simple saying that you want to use your tubing and pump for a new aquarium that is separate altogether?

In either case, it's a terrible idea. All the crap that fish put into the water is going to gunk up your blocks and parts real fast and require constant maintenance. In addition, the additives you'll need for a water cooling loop, such as biocide and anti-corrosives will kill any living things in the water. Furthermore, if you plan on reusing some of the parts strictly for filtration in the aquarium, the pump is really all you'll want to hang on to as the tubing is cheap enough where you might as well just replace it. However, saying this, generally pumps that are excellent for water cooling are not that great for an aquarium. With aquariums, you only need enough head pressure to keep a consistent flow rate through the filter, after that, you just wants lots of flow (GPH).

[shabranigdo]

Electric Fish. Forget real ones. That will keep the fish :banana::banana::banana::banana: out of your blocks.

[fire]

...woh.

The title of the post was just a joke. I want nothing to do with fish. It was a play on words...algae...fish...etc. Heh. I just wanted to know what to use to clean my parts out.

[plato333]

hmmm a fish tank. thats a pretty big res...pics? would not want to be the fish that gets sucked in the line.