Algae - what to do?

OrphanBoy

OrphanBoy

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Ok, so I've had an Asetek Waterchill system in my machine since August now and I've changed the water only once - when I moved to London in mid-October. Both times I've used an entire mini-bottle of that pink water wetter/anti-algae fluid which OcUK sells.

Yet I had a quick look inside my machine today and I was shocked to see that things are living in it! Ok, it's not mega in there, but there's still enough in my opinion to be problematic in a few months time. I'm not too worried about the pipes as they can be replaced - it's the waterblock and radiator which I'm worried about!

So is this stuff removeable? And how do I prevent it coming back this quickly next time?

Just for reference: I seem to remember needing about 300ml of deionised water to fill it up properly.

Thanks guys :)
 
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OrphanBoy said:
Just for reference: I seem to remember needing about 300ml of deionised water to fill it up properly.
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Nah, this is stuff that I bought from a garage (Tesco's petrol station!) as designed for car radiators...

And I mixed the water wetter in with the ratio given on the side of the bottle.

Gonna pull it all out maybe next weekend but I was planning on getting a GPU block so I'll prob time it all round then. Just ain't too keen on putting things like bleach in the system as I don't know what kind of effect it'll have on the pipes - can it corrode metal too? (I seriously have no idea!)
 
You don't have to de-algae car radiators, right?

Just for the hell of it, as I never bothered bin the last bottle of water I used (as I still had some left), I had a look in the bottle to see if any of that magical green stuff was there. And no, there wasn't. So why's it in my computer instead? Is it because it's warm?

And no, when I'm gonna fill it up again I'm not gonna use that 'old' water :)
Also, how am I going to stop it coming back like this again? Use double the amount of water wetter?
 
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