water changed colour

bastic · 19 Jul 2012 at 08:06

Hi,
Just noticed that water in my loop is slightly changing colour to blue...
what can it be ? why is it happening ?

I feel like a cleaning needs to be done to it soon...

Ideas?
Thanks

andybird123 · 19 Jul 2012 at 10:02

what fluid are you using? just water? how long has your loop been running?

a change of colour could be anything from some kind of reaction going on with a block, leaching from the tubing, something in the fluid breaking down...

but yes, a change of colour indicates something is going on in their that you might not want, so yes a clean and replace of fluid would probably be a good idea

bastic · 19 Jul 2012 at 10:23

andybird123 said:
what fluid are you using? just water? how long has your loop been running?

a change of colour could be anything from some kind of reaction going on with a block, leaching from the tubing, something in the fluid breaking down...

but yes, a change of colour indicates something is going on in their that you might not want, so yes a clean and replace of fluid would probably be a good idea

just water,
tubes are transparent...
running almost a year - but water was topped up as I needed to empty loop a bit when I was adjusting waterblock on GPU.

seems like need to change it in next few weeks

thanks

OptimaLnrg · 19 Jul 2012 at 11:13

What additives are you using?

bastic · 19 Jul 2012 at 13:01

OptimaLnrg said:
What additives are you using?

need to get silver coil, and am using anticorrosive drops

bastic · 21 Jul 2012 at 20:07

water was definitely blue! no idea why...opened GPU block as it was replaced and looks almost as new inside..