[Dave Willis]

You still using it?
My strainer has been getting a tad slimy lately - nothing much. Just wondered if the GG4 might be causing it (could even be my pure water IBC - haven't checked). Your strainer clear?

[Smudger]

Sorry Dave

Don't use strainers - never could see the point

But haven't noticed anything other than clean, shiny, Windows 😃

Darran

[paulben]

My strainer gets a film of slime and I am not using gg4 started going slimy on Vision and on ecover + vinegar but now experimenting with something else which will hopefully stop problem maybe when soap meets pure water causing a skin like the scum you get on bathroom basin if you leave soap in water

[Jonny 87]

Over the past 5 years I've used loads of different additives and never had a build up of anything in the strainer.

Maybe one weekend give your ibc and tank a good flush out with tap water and a bit of virosol.

[Rich Wilts]

Darren/Dave what ratio of GG4 do you use with pure? Is it similiar to Vision 1ml /100 litres?

[Smurf]

If you are using a transparent tank to hold pure water in the tank walls etc will eventually go green after time and you will also get wiggly things swimming about in the water too. The slim is just microorganism growth the same as you get in filters etc.

There is a good reason why tap water is chlorinated 

[Smudger]

Yes Matt - I brought dispensing bottles off eBay (4 for around £6.00)
And dose one squirt per 200 litres

If your water is pure and your filling on a regular basis it won't go green and defo no worms 

A teaspoon of sodium hypochlorite once every couple of months would keep everything bacterially clean

Darran

[Rich Wilts]

Thansks Darren. I'll give it a pop, see how it pans out.

[paulben]

Is that same as Milton tablets for baby bottle sterilization

[Smudger]

Don't think so, hypo is industrial bleach used in swimming pools

Darran

[Smurf]

You also don't want to go running a bleach mix through yer pumps either as it will kill them unless you buy a chlorine resitant pump like a fat boy but still they don't last forever as eventualy the bleach mix kills them too 

[paulben]

So have I been wasting my time with Milton tablets

[Smurf]

So have I been wasting my time with Milton tablets

No as they work too

[Smudger]

Milton tabs are fine

I hardly think one spoonful to a 1000 litres of water qualifies as a bleach mix

Darran

[Dave Willis]

Darren/Dave what ratio of GG4 do you use with pure? Is it similiar to Vision 1ml /100 litres?

I use 2ml to 100l. I've never used Vision so can't compare.

[Smurf]

Milton tabs are fine

I hardly think one spoonful to a 1000 litres of water qualifies as a bleach mix

Darran

very true 

[Mike #1]

So have I been wasting my time with Milton tablets

How many Milton tabs would you place in a 400ltr tank and how often  to prevent the build up of Bio-film

[Smurf]

Myself I would clean/treat each tank at least once a year using hypo to kill any crap in them, then flush them  through and wash them out thoroughly with pure.

 

[paulben]

treat every thing spring, mid summer and autumn  use whatever ratio  it say's on box if its good enough for baby's should be good well that's my theory but would be better trying liquid saves opening all those packs

[Dave Willis]

I've never cleaned my tanks in eight years  Never washed a brush either.