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melev 11/18/2007 04:59 PM

Any guesses what this liquid is, and where to get it?
 
While visiting Lunchbucket's reef, I noticed his Calcium Reactor bubble counter was moving in slow motion. It was really neat, and later at Goodwin9's home, he gave me a bottle of the mystery syrup.

[img]http://melevsreef.com/pics/07/11/bottle_of_oil.jpg[/img]

I noticed my bubble counter was empty again as of yesterday (it either evaporates or bubbles the liquid up the airline tubing), so I cleaned it well and filled it up with this oil
[img]http://melevsreef.com/pics/07/11/bubble_counter_oil.jpg[/img]

Here's a video of how it looks.
[url]http://melevsreef.com/video/bubble_counter.wmv[/url] (3 megs - Right Click & Save As to your harddrive please)

I don't know what it is, but there was some discussion that it might be glycerol.

oddski12 11/18/2007 06:28 PM

Hi, not sure if this is what you were after, or whether you wanted to know where sold it in a different & cheaper form (e.g magnesium buffer / epsom salts) but it's available from marine depot called bubble counter liquid.

HTH

Adam

melev 11/18/2007 06:32 PM

Thanks Adam. I figured people would ask me about it in the future, and wanted to be able to point them to the product somewhere:

[url]https://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewItem~idProduct~KL3311.html[/url]

radone 11/18/2007 06:36 PM

Glycerin works for me Marc, got a 8oz bottle from the local pharmacy. Has many uses

I had the same thing happen but bubble counter filled with water because I'm stupid and put a valve on the outlet of my reactor (no more) ;)


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