Any guesses what this liquid is, and where to get it?

[melev]

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.



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


Here's a video of how it looks.
http://melevsreef.com/video/bubble_counter.wmv (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]

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]

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:

https://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewI...ct~KL3311.html

[radone]

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)