CowboyRWN Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 You should be fine with rigid PVC if you are worried about it. It is one of the reasons I decided with rigid PVC. I think CPVC is overkill, they use it because it has a higher temp resistance. Link to comment
Professor Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 You should be fine with rigid PVC if you are worried about it. It is one of the reasons I decided with rigid PVC. I think CPVC is overkill, they use it because it has a higher temp resistance. Agreed. Link to comment
yardboy Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 I've been using flexible PVC for a long time and have never seen any problems I could attribute to it. Face it, if we don't use plastic we'll be using metal. I get so much corraline growth on both rigid and flexible PVC that I'm having a hard time imagining it produces much of a harmful effect. Link to comment
Mr. Fosi Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Even if flex PVC leaked PO4, I bet the flux into the water would be strongly inhibited in lighted areas during lights on. The photosynthetic organisms living on it would sequester it. Link to comment
johnmaloney Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 I am sold on this. Every single customer I have had in the last month that has had "some weird brown goop algae" had just recently added egg crate. Link to comment
Nick's Reef Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 I am sold on this. Every single customer I have had in the last month that has had "some weird brown goop algae" had just recently added egg crate. Yep, i got this crap all over my foam wall from the eggcrate. i found that strong flow keeps it off at least for now, i've got all my powerheads pointing at it after I brucshed it off and did a wc. Link to comment
hazmat Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 I had algae issue with my 20g long frag tank. Was doing perfectly fine without eggcrate, added eggcrate, almost immediately (i.e. within the week), had algae issues. Not snot algae, but some type of fuzzy hair algae. Removed eggcrate, algae problems went away. Nothing else was changed within this time frame, nor any frags added. Soaked the eggcrate in some fw for a while, put it back in, no issues now. Definitely not a scientific method, but thats the results, and you can pull your own conclusions from it. This was the cheapo white eggcrate from Home Depot. I had both the brown snotty and green fuzzy algae growing on my little frag rack. I took it out and bleached it. It didn't take long for it to come back. Link to comment
Nick's Reef Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 if this stuff is leaching sillicates, isn't there chemical media we can use to get rid of it? I thought gfo removes sillicates aswell as phosphates but for people like me dosing a carbon source (vodka, sugar, vinegar, or brightwell biofuel) we can't use gfo. Dose carbon remove sillicates? Link to comment
Mr. Fosi Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Dose carbon remove sillicates? No. Link to comment
Militant Jurist Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Once again: Krylon Fusion. +10 I'm going to be doing it even for the crate I'm planning to use to support the lights over my tank, just to be safe. Wash, rinse, and then Krylon Fusion. I was thinking about making a mini-rack using a magfloat, so I'm glad I read this well beforehand! Link to comment
HighLife Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 does this only happen when it exposed to light? would a nice hot soapy bath prevent this? I bought some egg crate to make a media rack and now thinking twice about it. I want to try the cheato route again and would be using this for sure. Link to comment
Mr. Fosi Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 does this only happen when it exposed to light? would a nice hot soapy bath prevent this? Maybe and probably. Link to comment
Crawf71 Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 For years I have used eggcrate and haven't had issues with it except in sump areas. And there I really don't care. I honestly think that what happens when most people introduce eggcrate into their system that the most simplistic organisms take hold. Link to comment
ribbie Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I avoided eggcrate completely with my build thanks to this thread. Link to comment
yardboy Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 I've used eggcrate for years and got nothing but corraline growing on it..... until this year. Something changed in the formula or releasing agent or something. Link to comment
Hanser Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 So I put a DIY frag rack in my 29BC about a month ago, and got the "snot" algae within a week. Its been about a month now and coraline algae is beginning to colonize the rack, snot is almost gone from the rack itself, however now the snot is on the sand in a few places. I am going to manually remove as much of it as possible. My question is, should I leave the rack in place and let the coraline cover over the rack? Will this keep the "chemical" or "chemicals" from leaching into the water? Link to comment
gurnie Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 i made a rock wall (look at my sig for the link) with homedepot egg crate. i soaked it in bleach water and then dechlorinated tap water to remove the bleach water... then sprayed it down with krylon fusion. After those steps i went on with the rock wall application (attaching the dead live rock and applying "great stuff pond and stone", along with sand and silicon so the sand sticks). So far my rock wall has been completely gunk free. Link to comment
Kraylen Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 PAINT EGGCRATE </thread> Jesus. Link to comment
Hanser Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 PAINT EGGCRATE </thread> Jesus. Maybe I should have been more specific. Short of spraying, if the coraline covers the entire eggcrate, will that be as effective as Krylon? Jesus. Link to comment
GioReef Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Not really. The coralline wont cover it completely. And it will take some time to even start spreading. Just paint it. Kraylen's 100% right. Link to comment
Militant Jurist Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Are you saying that you've already got it covered in coralline, or that you'd like to wait and let it get that way? If you are talking about waiting, the time frame required can be quite lengthy, and I'd just paint it to avoid the problems. I've not had any real problems with my Krylon painted frag rack. The only things growing on it are the same things growing on my tank walls: Spirorbis, coralline, and a bit of random algae that's the same as what has always grown on my glass. I'm not sure how I feel about saying this, but I agree 100% with Kraylen on this one. If you can paint it, paint it. It takes only a few minutes, and it can save all kinds of hassles. Link to comment
Kraylen Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 I believe I solved this mystery several times this thread already Bix needs to edit the title Link to comment
Hanser Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Thanks for the quick replys. The coraline is covering about 20% of the eggcrate, and it seems like every week it covers a noticable amount. ( Alot more and lot quicker than coral skeletons I frag on) The "snot" algae is isolated to the sand bed. Im thinking what ever is causing the Cyano or what ever it is, is also fueling the coraline... jc anyone else notice this? Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted August 18, 2009 Author Share Posted August 18, 2009 I believe I solved this mystery several times this thread already Bix needs to edit the title Link to comment
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