BetterSense
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I keep 2L batches of D23 in clear plastic cranberry juice bottles. After a while, and it doesn't seem to correlate with how much film I'm running, it gets all dirty. The inside of the plastic bottle will be coated with a brownish substance and the developer will be cloudy with brown fog. It basically looks like dirty water out of flooded stream or something. If I filter it with a coffee filter, the whole filter will be brown from crud.
The performance of the developer does not seem to be affected but I'm getting tired of filtering it and putting it in new bottles. When I kept it in dark brown glass 1L bottles, I don't remember this ever happening--as long as I didn't pour out the very last bit of developer, it would come out crystal clear. But maybe I just couldn't see it through the brown glass. Do you think the developer is reacting with the plastic, or oxidizing on the sidewalls? Does anyone else keep replenished D23, and if so, what do you store it in?
The performance of the developer does not seem to be affected but I'm getting tired of filtering it and putting it in new bottles. When I kept it in dark brown glass 1L bottles, I don't remember this ever happening--as long as I didn't pour out the very last bit of developer, it would come out crystal clear. But maybe I just couldn't see it through the brown glass. Do you think the developer is reacting with the plastic, or oxidizing on the sidewalls? Does anyone else keep replenished D23, and if so, what do you store it in?