SeaChem Reef Salt and white residue in my make-up tank
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I got my Calcium tested at Keen Reef tonight, it was at 500ppm. Tim suggested I cut back supplimenting, I told him I hadn't and the tank water was over a month old. I kinda wonder what it would have tested at if calcium hadn't leeched from solution..... Yikes!
I've always filled the container with water completely before adding any salt. It had never even occured to me that people may do it the other way around. The stuff that IO left in the Brute was really coarser than sand... I don't know what it consisted of, of course, but there was a substantial amount of it (like I said, probably a couple of tablespoons or more) sitting on the bottom after making 32g of water.
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Seachem Reef Salt should have a calcium level of 442ppm at a specific gravity of 1.026.
Do you know specifically that it was calcium that left the residue? I can't imagine with the quality control present at Seachem that you would end up with a batch of salt with a calcium level that would have to be more than 30% higher than spec for it be precipitatingr out enough to leave significant deposits and this would be the only case we'd hear of it. It just doesn't add up.
I had my water tested at an LFS and had 563 Calcium and I NEVER dose calcium. And I use Seachem Reef Salt. After a couple of water changes it tested 400 at the same LFS. Could it have been an unmixed bucket of salt such that I ran in to a higher concentration of calcium at one point? I also get a little white foamy stuff in my make up water bucket but I do occassionally add salt while the water is being moved from the ro/di bucket to the make up water bucket.
I know this may be a trivial point, but I always get a good mix if I add the salt to the water (not water to the salt) AND have my mixing pump going before I add the salt. I use Instant Ocean and I do not get the brown sludge some folks talk about, the salt dissolves, and all is good!
Dave
Dave
I've always mixed in smaller quantities... 3-5 gallons..
bucket filled with RO water, then submerge a powerhead, pour salt on to the outflow of the powerhead so it's dispersed into the container by the water movement..
a few minutes later, move the powerhead to use it's intake to pick up any residual salt and disperse throughout the container..
FWIW, I usually mix salt and let the powerhead circulate for less than 30 minutes before i put it in the tanks..
bucket filled with RO water, then submerge a powerhead, pour salt on to the outflow of the powerhead so it's dispersed into the container by the water movement..
a few minutes later, move the powerhead to use it's intake to pick up any residual salt and disperse throughout the container..
FWIW, I usually mix salt and let the powerhead circulate for less than 30 minutes before i put it in the tanks..
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