Ken:
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In my haste, I may have added too much brighter and am not sure what to do if I did. How can I remove it?
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Filter it.
Cheap but labor intensive method: use coffee filters. If you have much sedimentation in your electrolyte, the filters will plug up quickly. I got @ 1 quart per filter before it stopped flowing effectively.
Better method, costs a few $: go get an activated charcoal water filter cartridge (the type used to filter water to refrigerators w/cold water taps). Plumb a plastic tube from an aquarium pump to the filter inlet. Hang the filter above your tank, immerse the pump in the tank and turn it on. The filtered electrolyte simply dribbles back into the tank.
It takes a LONG time, but since you're not manually attending to it, let 'er run for a few hours. If you agitate the electrolyte at the same time, stirring up the sedimentation, the electrolyte will eventually clear up. By this time, the sedimentation AND the brightener are mostly gone.
Or ... you could plate it out with a dummy. But this is wasteful of anode.
Sean