So I am not sure what to do here ...
I am leaving for 3 weeks, have an experienced reefer coming over every other day to take care of my tank.
I am setting up a huge 100 gallon rubbermaid bin (used I bought from someone) filled with RO water and then I have a dosing pump going into that bin to dose the dry off water that I lose everyday.
BUT ... I just tested the water after I piut it into the used rubbermaid bin and it was reading "87". I then tested the water in another plain 18 gallon tote, and it was reading "3" ... so clearly that bin is messing up the water.
YES I did scrub the bin out, and there seemed to be a white residue on the inside of the bin that I tried razor blading off but it was hard to scrape off. I am not sure if it is paint or what !?!? But this bin was bought at a frag swap from a guy that said he used it for keeping rock, etc. so I figured it was safe.
Should I mess with putting this water into this bin when it was putting off a "87" on the tds meter and clearly getting contaimonated?
I am leaving for 3 weeks, have an experienced reefer coming over every other day to take care of my tank.
I am setting up a huge 100 gallon rubbermaid bin (used I bought from someone) filled with RO water and then I have a dosing pump going into that bin to dose the dry off water that I lose everyday.
BUT ... I just tested the water after I piut it into the used rubbermaid bin and it was reading "87". I then tested the water in another plain 18 gallon tote, and it was reading "3" ... so clearly that bin is messing up the water.
YES I did scrub the bin out, and there seemed to be a white residue on the inside of the bin that I tried razor blading off but it was hard to scrape off. I am not sure if it is paint or what !?!? But this bin was bought at a frag swap from a guy that said he used it for keeping rock, etc. so I figured it was safe.
Should I mess with putting this water into this bin when it was putting off a "87" on the tds meter and clearly getting contaimonated?