Perc/Met solution and worms,

[Curly79]

Hi all. I was just washing out my fermenter this arvo, it was full of water and Sodium perc and met solution. It had been soaking overnight and as I was cleaning it I was letting the liquid go onto the lawn. I looked down and there were worms crawling all over the place! What's going on there!? Great way to collect bait.[emoji476]

 

[Lyrebird_Cycles]

If you mix sodium percarbonate and metabisulphite you get sodium sulphate*. I know that ammonium sulphate is bad for worms, perhaps sodium sulphate is too.


* this is a classic case of neutralisation: whilst each has an antimicrobial function, they cancel each others' modes of action so the mixture is useless.

 

[n87]

people really need to not shorten their chemicals.
home brewers use both Sodium metabisulphite and Sodium metasilicate.

 

[Lyrebird_Cycles]

True that.

If you mix sodium percarbonate and metasilicate you get an excellent cleaner for red wine stains.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

I noticed the worm thing yesterday while emptying a 100L wine barrel that had been filled with a solution containing sodium metabisulfite and acid. Poor little buggers.

 

[Dave70]

Hi all. I was just washing out my fermenter this arvo, it was full of water and Sodium perc and met solution. It had been soaking overnight and as I was cleaning it I was letting the liquid go onto the lawn. I looked down and there were worms crawling all over the place! What's going on there!? Great way to collect bait.[emoji476]

Take some to the beach and what you save on blood worms you can spend on beer.

 

[Curly79]

It was sodium percobonate and Sodium metasilicate. It didn't kill them. They wriggled across the surface and back into the lawn away from the area.

 

[Curly79]

True that.

If you mix sodium percarbonate and metasilicate you get an excellent cleaner for red wine stains.

You also get an excellent cleaner for brewing gear.