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11-21-2009, 01:59 PM
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Myka, what is your issue with the microwave? It leaves no residual energy other than heat that I am aware of. Fill me in please.
Good thread...any 4 saving means more new corals 
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11-21-2009, 02:10 PM
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Plain old water when microwaved (and cooled) and used to water plants has been damaged to the point that the plants don't recognise it as water anymore, and the plants will wither away. If you don't believe that try it yourself on two "identical" plants. Feed one tap water, and the other microwaved tap water. You can find experiments like these documented on the internet. I didn't believe them, so I tried it myself. It's true.
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11-21-2009, 04:08 PM
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Have you tried 3?
one with tap water one with tap water Microwaved one with tap water Boiled on the stove perhaps boiling the the water in general will change the molecular level, regardless of the method used?
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11-21-2009, 04:26 PM
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Microwaving water does nothing to the molecular structure or composition of water - it will add heat (energy) to the bonds within the molecule, but it won't make it into anything else besides H2O.
Saying it damages it on the molecular level is a load of crap. While it is true that microwaves can damage things like proteins and DNA (due to conformational changes, breakdown of COMPLEX molecular structures, etc), it will NOT cause a molecular change in H2O. Last time I microwaved water it didn't turn into anything else, if I recall correctly. Documented on the internet? Lots of stuff is documented on the internet - unless it's peer reviewed by experts in the field, it's only as good as the next site about ninjas swallowing frisbees when they get really ****ed. Maybe the water needs to be cooled first? 
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11-21-2009, 05:12 PM
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I think this thread is going much deeper into the whole idea of heating the carbon in water than it needs too! I urge anyone the next time they are changing carbon to try this before making assumptions. I am not sure about the whole idea that it supercharges the carbon; however, 2 minutes in boiling water makes rinsing it useless, all impurities float to the surface and it is ready for use in the tank immediately.
I understand that boiling or very hot water drives all of the air out of the Carbon making it more effective vs carbon that typically will have lots of air trapped in the microscopic channels when only rinsed with cold water. Last edited by Oceanic; 11-21-2009 at 05:27 PM.
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11-21-2009, 05:17 PM
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I think if you pour hot water on a plant, heated in any way, its going to start to wither away.
I boiled my carbon yesterday before using it and a lot of crap came out of it. I didn't test to see if phosphates had leached out but I assume they may have. In any case, I will always boil carbon first. After boiling, I rinsed it in RO and I was impressed with how little the RO water washed out of the carbon, it was relatively clean.
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11-21-2009, 05:44 PM
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I'm glad someone thought it was funny
My carbon doesn't float after a cold soak overnight (BRS ROX carbon), but I do find it's still silty. Do you guys let it cool naturally or do you quench it in cold/RT RO/DI water?
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