Tim Plaster
Teartags
Based on excellent help and recommendations from this forum, I recently installed a Fleck 2510 AIO with Katalox light in a 10" tank. It started out great. The water was flowing clear and the brown stains weren't coming back. Fast forward 6 months and the iron water is back.
My iron levels are 5.008 ppm. This is a 2nd home and sometimes can go 2 weeks with no one staying there.
I had the regen cycle set for 3 days and just changed it to 2
The BW rate I bumped from 10 to 11
Rapid Rinse is set for 10 mins.
I do have garnet in my tank below the KL. Would that require me to backwash more to get the KL to "fluff up"?
I took the valve off the unit, siphoned a little water out of it and added a very heavy dose of Iron Out dissolved in water. Let it sit for a couple hours, reattached the valve and manually started a regen. cycle. It didn't seem to make a difference. In hindsight, I should have drained all of the water and then filled it with the iron out solution. Would bleach work better to "clean" or regenerate the KL?
Any other ideas on how to clean the KL?
Even if this works, I obviously don't want to have to go through this process every 6 months. Any settings I can change or do I need to start looking at an injector system?
My iron levels are 5.008 ppm. This is a 2nd home and sometimes can go 2 weeks with no one staying there.
I had the regen cycle set for 3 days and just changed it to 2
The BW rate I bumped from 10 to 11
Rapid Rinse is set for 10 mins.
I do have garnet in my tank below the KL. Would that require me to backwash more to get the KL to "fluff up"?
I took the valve off the unit, siphoned a little water out of it and added a very heavy dose of Iron Out dissolved in water. Let it sit for a couple hours, reattached the valve and manually started a regen. cycle. It didn't seem to make a difference. In hindsight, I should have drained all of the water and then filled it with the iron out solution. Would bleach work better to "clean" or regenerate the KL?
Any other ideas on how to clean the KL?
Even if this works, I obviously don't want to have to go through this process every 6 months. Any settings I can change or do I need to start looking at an injector system?