Calcium chloride di-hydrate.......AKA brown poo

[Dami]

have brought a 4kg tub of this calium chloride.
All the fauna salts i've brought have mixed clear,
However this recent tub has mixed up as brown poo, hasn't really mixed well at all, normally i'd pour the salts in and stir, job done... clear liquid in 90secs!
this time is brown, and i can't see through it even days later, several days later and it clear, but the base of the holding tank is brown, all the salts seem to have come out of solution?! :confused:

i thought this only affected the CHEAP salts. but i paid the full whack for this tub @ £32.99!!!!

In short........ I AM NOT HAPPY.

can someone tell me whats going on? weather this is a problem that i need to address with this tub?
am not happy with the fact i've gotta clean this balling tank out now, change the lines to the doser, and bin a £32.99 tub.
just a waste of money.

PS: no, there is NO batch number on the tub.

[C. Schuhmacher]

Hi Damiano

Thanks for your post
We just send some new batches in the UK of our new balling system with
a bioactive solution.
I forget to add a stabilizier so the polymers react and make a brown color.
It makes no difference but looks not good.
Please send me your adress i will send you a new batch of
the salts which will be cleared
(info@faunamarin.de)
Greets Claude

[Dami]

have sent email to .info@faunamarin.de.
and also by PM.

Thankyou for you time.

[C. Schuhmacher]

Hi

it is going out today
greets claude

[SCOOB]

I've been binning the brown sludge at the bottom of the tub as it just wont mix, even after a couple of weeks and vigourous shaking.

You say it is safe to use Claude, is that all the way through? Is the brown sludge at the bottom to be binned as I have been doing or can I mix it in with the new solution. I'm binning a fair bit each week at this rate.

[C. Schuhmacher]

Hi

Yes it it safe it looks only not good

greets claude

[SCOOB]

so why wont it dissolve?

[Dami]

I've been binning the brown sludge at the bottom of the tub as it just wont mix, even after a couple of weeks and vigourous shaking.

You say it is safe to use Claude, is that all the way through? Is the brown sludge at the bottom to be binned as I have been doing or can I mix it in with the new solution. I'm binning a fair bit each week at this rate.

I'm no scientist (obviously:D), but if the brown goo won't mix into the solution, then surely it won't mix into the main display water....
if used over a prolonged period ie: months / years it would just settle into the display and need to be manually removed......?!

[SCOOB]

I wasn't going to add it to my tank Damian :laugh:

I was going to add it to the next batch, in the hopes that it would dissolve in the RO prior to me adding the new salts.

If all it is, is a mising polymer which affects colour, why the hell do i have 3mm of it in the bottom of my balling tanks???

Been using this for a while now and no adverse effects, but I do begrudge slinging out salts that might well be re-usable.

[C. Schuhmacher]

Hi Scoob

i will explain you
if you mix Polymers with salts it will happend nothing cause the salts protect the polymers for oxygen and water.

after the dissoling in the canister you must protect them against
"corrosion" and bacterial grow.

If you forget this the polymers will corrode and fall out
if this happens the material get brown and step by step the material
will fallen out cause the corroded material is no longer present in dissolved form

I make a small mistake which looks bad but will not make more trouble then clean the canisters

so i ám really sorry and can promised that the new mixs will work like you
know from FM Products

Greets claude

[SCOOB]

Still sounds dodgy as hell if I'm honest dude, but, nothing's died yet so I'm game to keep plugging away :)

Thanks for, sort of, explaining it.

[Dami]

New bucket is now in my hands........:wub: :laugh:
thankyou very much for helping me so fast.....
As always, thankyou for your time and help.
Keep up the great work :thanks: