Dark specs in reservoir

[willm555555]

I just noticed them, they weren't there a few days ago. Bacteria? Tips and or guides for cleaning?

 

 

 

[LIGISTX]

16 minutes ago, willm555555 said:

I just noticed them, they weren't there a few days ago. Bacteria? Tips and or guides for cleaning?

 

 

 

Time to drain your loop, and clean with hot water mixed with vinegar. And potentially fill the loop with vinegar water and let it run for 20 mins to really “scrub” it all clean. Then rinse a few times to get all the vinegar traces out. 
 

Run a kill coil or biocide… or both. I run both. And even after a while I’ll get algae growing.
 

Life is resilient turns out. 

[willm555555]

3 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Time to drain your loop, and clean with hot water mixed with vinegar. And potentially fill the loop with vinegar water and let it run for 20 mins to really “scrub” it all clean. Then rinse a few times to get all the vinegar traces out. 
 

Run a kill coil or biocide… or both. I run both. And even after a while I’ll get algae growing.
 

Life is resilient turns out. 

Thanks for the advice. What ratio of water to vinegar should I use? I'm using Corsair's premixed coolant which has a biocide in it, should I get a concentrate and mix my own? And any kill coil recommendations? 

[LIGISTX]

5 minutes ago, willm555555 said:

Thanks for the advice. What ratio of water to vinegar should I use? I'm using Corsair's premixed coolant which has a biocide in it, should I get a concentrate and mix my own? And any kill coil recommendations? 

I’d just google how to clean a loop. Off hand I don’t know what % I’d do, maybe half half. But google would know better. 
 

I run Distilled water and EK’s biocide, and just any kill coil will work. It’s just a little coil of silver, which is a natural biocide. 

[fonzz1e]

before u put in silver coil, make sure yer loop has no nickel 

[AnonymousGuy]

On 5/26/2022 at 10:37 PM, willm555555 said:

Thanks for the advice. What ratio of water to vinegar should I use? I'm using Corsair's premixed coolant which has a biocide in it, should I get a concentrate and mix my own? And any kill coil recommendations? 

Vinegar already is pretty dilute acetic acid so you could run it straight up.  

 

 

You don't need to downgrade your coolant to distilled + biocide, it's just garbage that was in your radiator probably that got flushed out.  Some radiators come filthy (EK, HWLabs)