URGENT- overdilluted bionic, what to do??

[Playdope]

URGENT- I did something stupid, need chem guys!
I was dilluting some new large jugs of Bionic (the ones that get shipped as concentrate)... and I left the room for a while (too long) to come back to a bottle of the Ca part that had been filled the rest of the way with RO/DI, and actually had started overflowing onto the floor. How can I go about still using it? I dont know how much I would need to dillute the Alk part so that the parts are equally strong?!

Thanks

 

[sediener]

do you know how much you overflowed?

If not and you have some other Ca part that is correctly diluted, You can test both for calcium using serial dilutions and figure out how badly you diluted it. Then adjust your Alk additions accordingly...

If the good Ca addititve is 30% higher than the overdiluted one, use 30% more of the overdiluted Ca than the Alk when you dose.

- Steve

 

[Anonymous]

I don't think he knows how much it overflowed, that's the problem...

Hmmm, any idea how much time elapsed before you noticed it? Did it overflow gallons? I mean, one thing to take into consideration is that the part that overflowed may have just been pure water, as the concentrated Ca may have just stayed at the bottom and not gotten completely into solution. I would just use it as if it was normal. Test your Ca and Alk levels, and see what happens.

 

[Playdope]

The jug wasn't too expensive... maybe I should just get a new one.

I would go about just putting it into the tank and testing... but I'm really not sure how to go about correcting any problems that arrise. If I put in both parts equally.. if anything odd does happen, I am assuming it will be a drop in Ca, and the Alk will go up, right? If that happens, I'm guessing I would need to dillute the Alk with some ro/di, and keep dosing equal parts up each... testing and further diluting the Alk part until levels become stable. The thing is .... what if there is a shift in the levels over the course of doing this, and by the time I dillute the alk part enough, the levels in the tank out of normal range?? I read in RandyHF's article that some Ca + Alk problems can be tricky to fix.

 

[Anonymous]

I would just buy a new jug.