Algae Problem

[Sir SpankalotUK]

Whilst installing some new fans to my setup the weekend, I have noticed what appears to be algae starting to coat the pipes, most evident on the underside of the tubing, but the blocks look largely unaffected. Never had algae before in my loop, but since I replaced it and put battery water (it was new) and EK blue UV additive that comes with the EK HF kit, I'm somewhat surprised to be facing the issue tbh.

I'm a little bit lost as to course of action, I have thought about trying to introduce a very small amount of bleach (a couple of ml's) to pervent further build up whilst I wait for a solution to be delivered. Other option was UV light, but that still something I would need to buy in.

Is there anything that can be done except just striping and cleaning the entire system, replacing the tubing and going with a premix like mayhems?

 

[Sir SpankalotUK]

Thanks for the advice guys, its just I am worried that suddenly killing the algae might cause it to clog the EK cpu block.

Gonna try some baby bottle cleaning fluid and introduce that to the mix already in the loop and see what happens. Still at a loss as to where its come from, unless I got a bad batch of either the battery water or EK additive.

 

[Sir SpankalotUK]

hmm sadly I threw the bottle away that the additive came in, so I am presuming that the bottle had some kind of anti-algae in it, as the pre-mix from ek does and it did have a harmful sticker on the bottle.

I just want to prevent further algae build up whilst I wait for whatever bits I order to arrive.