scissorfighter
n00b
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2005
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- 8
Hey Gang. I've got what might appear to be a stupid question, and keep in mind it's coming from a water cooling newbie about 1.5 months into his first watercooled system. I've got a Zalman Reserator, hooked up to the accompaning Zalman CPU block and a Swiftech VGA block. I'm using the silicone tubing that came with the Res, and the unit is filled with distilled water and Swiftech Hydrx additive.
Over the last week I've noticed that the "action" of the flow indicator has become relaxed, as if the pump is getting tired. Also, the clear plastic tube of the indicator is becoming clouded with a blue "haze". So I took it all apart today, and was suprised to find the interior of everything coated with a relatively thick layer of blue "goop." It's similar in thickness to, say, chocolate pudding at room temperature. If I reach my hand down into the reserator and drag my finger up the side, a decent glob of this stuff comes out. All the tubes are coated inside with it.
So, this being my first water rig, I don't know what I'm looking it. It might be alge, but it's not like any alge I've ever seen in my fish-tank days. And I thought Hydrx was supposed to inhibit alge growth? I can't imagine that this is baterical growth because there's so much of it and it came on relatively quickly. So that leaves one other alternative... is my silicone tubing melting from the inside out, perhaps due to a bad reaction with the Hydrx? The goop is exactly the same color as the tubing.
If so, now what?
Thanks all,
Ryan
Over the last week I've noticed that the "action" of the flow indicator has become relaxed, as if the pump is getting tired. Also, the clear plastic tube of the indicator is becoming clouded with a blue "haze". So I took it all apart today, and was suprised to find the interior of everything coated with a relatively thick layer of blue "goop." It's similar in thickness to, say, chocolate pudding at room temperature. If I reach my hand down into the reserator and drag my finger up the side, a decent glob of this stuff comes out. All the tubes are coated inside with it.
So, this being my first water rig, I don't know what I'm looking it. It might be alge, but it's not like any alge I've ever seen in my fish-tank days. And I thought Hydrx was supposed to inhibit alge growth? I can't imagine that this is baterical growth because there's so much of it and it came on relatively quickly. So that leaves one other alternative... is my silicone tubing melting from the inside out, perhaps due to a bad reaction with the Hydrx? The goop is exactly the same color as the tubing.
If so, now what?
Thanks all,
Ryan