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Originally Posted by Marci
My problem as such was more directly related to companies advertising additives as being for Anti-Algae purposes, such as the Asetek product, when that is merely a co-incidental after-effect rather than the purpose of the additive in question (especially if it is just plain old WaterWetter in their bottles). I'd rather not make a claim that an additive will control algae and fungal growth if it doesn't explicitly say so in that additives data sheet etc as that can lie you up for being done for false advertising, or later down the line just a flaming along the lines of "you said this would prevent fungi / algae and it clearly doesn't as I have fungi / algae in my rig" from the n00b watercoolers who shouldn't own watercooling gear due to lack of IQ (*ducks just in case*)
Reason it took me so long was, I was trying to work out what exactly the problem was and why I had posted this topic, and that's more or less it.... is it valid to advertise a product for it's anti-algae properties when realistically it doesn't have any, it's just a side effect of the pH buffer... or would it be better to state "may help control algae etc due to contained pH buffers, but in some conditions an additional biocide may be necessary - available here" then link `em to the ACBlue...
It's more a matter of protecting ourselves from snotty customers in the wording of things I think, and if we were to make a biocide available, I wanted to be sure it wouldn't detriment things further when mixed with any other additives in the system....
More a marketing issue (?) or an issue caused by incorrect / negligent marketing than a clearly defined and occurring problem in need of solution...
Sadly my job makes that a necessity!!  |
I think we have 3 questions at hand:
How to 'correctly' represent additives which have algaecide properties ?
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How to preclude the growth of algae ?
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How to reduce/eliminate the 'flocking' of excessive/incompatible additives ?
this should keep us going a while
how to represent ? just say what it is and what it does (if it 'incidentally' inhibits the growth of algae, just say that - no ?)