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    Hardened Salt

    in New to the Marine Aquaria Hobby

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    2 hours ago, sharonleong said:

    May i know what the most recommend tester i should go for if i want to mix salt and tap water?

    You will need a calibrated refractometer or a calibrated hydrometer , but it is not recomended to use tap water (straight from the tap) , however if the tap water was treated with RODi or Seachem prime then it's good. Or you could just buy distilled water from the supermarket and so the mix.

    Hardened Salt

    in New to the Marine Aquaria Hobby

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    It has been said , when mixing saltmix it is best to add salt to the water instead of adding water to the salt ... Sounds same but totally different. When water is added to salt especially if poured slowly , the chances of over saturation is high and this may cause precipitation , the first thing to precipitate is calcium n magnesium, this will explain the cloudy water (case of the wet salt mix). 

    As for the clumping of salt , it may be caused by moisture getting into the bucket but that should be minimal and if the salt mix well without cloudy water or overly excessive precipitate , then it would be ok to use.

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    Dosing

    in General Reefkeeping_

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    How much you dose depends on how much the solution A and B is used up 

    if your tank inhabitant uses up certain amount of solution A per day then the dosing should be set to dose the same amount throughout the day.

    same goes to solution B .

    now the question is , how much solution A and B your tank is using per day?

    do a test with reliable test kits and find out. 

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