Right, so a while ago somebody posted that they had the frozencpu dye and that they heard it stains their tubes so they were looking for an alternative. Besides some botanical stuff, it came to nothing. Unfortunately, I also fell to frozencpu, so i have a tube of red uv dye that I'm afraid to use because I dont want to have to replace my tubes. I noticed that in the recent AquaSphere project Chewy used something called "bluemotion" which looks to be a wicked substance. I'd look for that, but I need red dye. Does anyone know of any UV dye that reacts well, leaves your tubes clean, and comes in red?
I don't know if it dyes tubes yet (I'll be glad to throw some in some fish tank tubing and test as I'm curious as well) but I do have some Angel Eye Technologies red UV dye bottle says www.angeleyeusa.com which may or may not be an alternative
what type of tubing do you have? iirc tygon does not stain at all, so that may be a solution to your problem
Hmm.. Not sure what kind of tubing honestly, picked it up at my local hardware store. I'll look tonight and report back. Zeroc - if you could do that test I'm sure I'm not the only one who would appreciate it!
hmmmm..... some of our german stores have uv-active red glowin fluid..... or you try "clearblue" - a "clear" fluid that shines blue under uv-light. if you mix it with G11 (used for car motors) like Audi & VW - maybe this is the effect you have searched for. let me see if I can find the store with the red motion fluid.
oh tygon WILL stain. trust me. i've done it. As to UV dyes staining, eventually you'll get a whiteish film inside your tubes with blue/green UV stuff.
klick here for the uv-active red fluid : http://www.caseking.de/shop/catalog...=1276&osCsid=24c54785ee5a2d70f01a9de7c367d99d (german : uv-aktiver wasserzusatz "rot") or try this http://www.watercooling.de/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1_9&products_id=249 for uv-active red glowing flex-tube... dunno how well it works - never tested it on my own but maybe you will try
