Alternative for PT nuke ?

Im soon starting my Lian Li V1000 build with a Swiftec GTZ & XSPC 4870X2 Razor blocks. I have a bottle of fluid XP deep purple coolant, but it looks awfully thick. And since the GTZ is a fairly restrictive block im a bit worried about clogging & staining the blocks. I did use Feser's cooling fluid on my last build and didn't have any problems with it. But the real question is if I decide to run pure distilled what could I use instead of PT nuke, since my local dealers don't have such stuff ( here in Finland ). I was thinking some antifreeze etc. stuff might work and keep it clean from algae, or will it do more harm in a loop ?

Just buy some anti-algae stuff from our fish/aquarium shop

http://www.petrastechshop.com/sikibyia.html

if they are ever available and if they ship to where you are.

There called Silver Kill Coils, you get them petra's made by iandh..

They go inloop like so:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...a/IMG_0155.jpg

Look like this when not inside the loop:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...a/IMG_0080.jpg


Option 2 with silver:
IS if you have an EK res, you can always plop one inside like so:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...a/IMG_0006.jpg

Id move to silver, its renewable, you cant OD it, and also is the best antimicrobe you can have in loop.

I beat you to it Naek :yepp:

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Originally Posted by Tsaroth

http://www.petrastechshop.com/sikibyia.html

if they are ever available and if they ship to where you are.

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If you dont mind clear coolant, 4-5 drops of bleach will keep out algae, etc. Of course, dont use it with dyes....don't ingest, put in eyes, etc...

Killing properties aside....

is bleach even close to being ok to touch copper loops or rads?

:chicken:

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Originally Posted by joecop120

If you dont mind clear coolant, 4-5 drops of bleach will keep out algae, etc. Of course, dont use it with dyes....don't ingest, put in eyes, etc...

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Bleach is Tygon-safe? Interesting. What reactions with copper, aluminum, brass, gold, etc?

I havent noticed any effects of bleach in any tubing. I used about 4 drops for about 1.5 liters of distilled water.

It probably did oxidize with the copper in the loop, but since it was such a small amount, I don't see anything. Dunno what compound would form, since bleach is a dissolved NaClO3, I can only assume NaCl and cuprous or cupric oxide....

Im not a chemist, just an engineer.

bleach will stain your tubing slightly yellow..

also your acrylic blocks...

oxides are also nasty stuff.. :\

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Originally Posted by NaeKuh

bleach will stain your tubing slightly yellow..

also your acrylic blocks...

oxides are also nasty stuff.. :\

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+1 .

Im not really keen to order a bottle or two of PT nuke half around the globe, so I guess it's the pet shop for me and some anti algae stuff. Or I'll go with the Fluid XP ultra with it's pretty colours and worry about clogging & staining later. Don't have any acrylic in my loop so that latter isn't a big problem. Thanks for the tips.