I'm slowly doing more water changes to replace all the existing water with RO/DI water. I did another 5.5 gallon change yesterday with no adverse effects and no algae build up so far. The brown slime algae which usually appears within 24 hours of a 5 gallon water change has yet to appear, which is a good sign. The RO/DI filter is really slow, I guess from a combination of cold and dirty water. Apparantly each degree Farenheit below 72 is a 1.2% decrease in production and my tap water is about 56 degrees right now so I guess that means about 20% less production which equates to 2.5 gallons per hour (filter is 75 gal/day). I am definitely not getting 2.5 g/hr so my water must be dirty or something, I got a TDS tester that will tell me for sure when it arrives.
Also, I flushed the anthia, he never made it.
Posted by Mike at March 15, 2004 05:13 PM