Contaminated developer with fixer

[MingMingPhoto]

hi all, I let a friend use my chemicals and he dropped a significant amount of fixer in our 5L of id68.

I didn't see the amount but it's sat for some days and now there are white flakes floating around.

the fixer is ilford rapid fix,

I'm going to make a fresh batch, but I'm also curious if anyonw knows what the white flakes are and if they know how the fixer has affected the developer.

 

[reddesert]

Developers are alkaline to promote the developing reaction, most fixers are acidic. The acid in stop or fixer stops the developer from working. A developer contaminated with acid stop bath or fixer is a dead parrot. Dispose of it.

 

[JensH]

Discard the ID68, even if I doubt it is now acidic, the thiosulphate of the fix will ruin the developer.
My guess for the flakes: Sulfur.

 

[GregY]

hi all, I let a friend use my chemicals and he dropped a significant amount of fixer in our 5L of id68.

I didn't see the amount but it's sat for some days and now there are white flakes floating around.

the fixer is ilford rapid fix,

I'm going to make a fresh batch, but I'm also curious if anyonw knows what the white flakes are and if they know how the fixer has affected the developer.

Seems like getting fixer into the developer would be hard to do.....?

 

[JensH]

Btw, a good idea is to split the 5L stock solution into some 0.5 or 1L bottles...