Help..Do I need to empty & clean my RODI Bin??

CincyReefer07 · Dec 15, 2022

I just had a complete brain fart tonight as I was getting ready to do one of my daily water changes. The right side is salt, left side is rodi. I noticed my salt was a little high for me what I keep my tank at… 1.026, I keep it at 1.025. So I went to add a couple gallons of rodi to it. Except I opened the bottom right valve, and my top two valves and kept the valve on bottom left closed. So basically what I did was pumped maybe a gallon of saltwater into my rodi container before I realized what stupid mistake I had made.

The ATO pump is in the rodi container and tops my tank off with rodi from that container. Do I now need to drain all 45 gallons of rodi in there and make new? Do I need to drain it all and then also scrub it clean? I’m so ticked at myself for such a stupid mistake not thinking.

What would you do in my situation??

vetteguy53081 · Dec 15, 2022

CincyReefer07 said:
I just had a complete brain fart tonight as I was getting ready to do one of my daily water changes. The right side is salt, left side is rodi. I noticed my salt was a little high for me what I keep my tank at… 1.026, I keep it at 1.025. So I went to add a couple gallons of rodi to it. Except I opened the bottom right valve, and my top two valves and kept the valve on bottom left closed. So basically what I did was pumped maybe a gallon of saltwater into my rodi container before I realized what stupid mistake I had made.

Do I now need to drain all 45 gallons of rodi in there and make new? Do I need to drain it all and then also scrub it clean? I’m so ticked at myself for such a stupid mistake not thinking.

What would you do in my situation??

No - as you add water , it will water down to no reading in time.
You can also drain some into buckets and salvage for future use or upcoming water change

CincyReefer07 · Dec 15, 2022

vetteguy53081 said:
No - as you add water , it will water down to no reading in time.
You can also drain some into buckets and salvage for future use or upcoming water change

Ok cool, I was thinking it’s probably not a big deal, but at the time I did it and as I was typing the post I was so ticked at myself for letting myself do something so dumb. I checked it with my Hanna salinity tester and it wasn’t even reading anything so I don’t think it was much that went in, a gallon at most, maybe not even that. Just annoyed at myself because I try to keep that rodi one especially so clean and sterile for rodi only.