- Location
- Huntington, Long Island
last June, I came home to find 3 inches of water in the basement where my tank and RO are located. The semi clear sediment filter housing had a defect in it and the bottom of it dropped out and for 9 hours the water ran. Any way I went out and had to find a new filter housing quickly. Apparently too quickly. My water is pretty clean and the sediment filters don't get that dirty, low tds. So today I go to change it and low and doh I find not a filter element but the instruction booklet. It came out kind of slimy so I guess it was in a state of decomposition. I think I figured out why my phosphates would actually jump after the water change and my cyano and hair algea have flourished. May also be why my snails keep dying within days of adding. I haven't found anything on ink that contains anything more then volatile organics so the carbon that i run all the time will take care of that. Ink and paper don't normally contain heavy metals. Guess I caught a break by running the carbon. I will be freshening up my carbon and run a WC on Saturday with a fresh new and yes I took the plastic wrap off before I rinsed it in the RO and change the carbon block on the RO as well. Corals and fish didn't seem affected. The one shrimp I've had is still going as well as the narcissus snails and hermits.
