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Trying out Salinity salt for the first time.
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, 05-05-2015 at 09:29 PM (7273 Views)
Last year I finally ran out of salt and shopped around for something new. I've enjoyed using Sybon Reef formula, but it's nowhere to be found. I did the Fritz brand for a few months, using about 750g worth... maybe more. I ended up buying a barrel of the Aquavitro Salinity salt, and today I cracked open the barrel for the first time. Here's the official page about it: http://www.aquavitro.com/products/salinity.html
The white polytank has been needing a good cleaning and I was waiting for good weather to hit, and a few days ago I was able to get that accomplished. I'd purchased a pressure sprayer (like used for insecticide) and filled it with a gallon of muriatic acid. Using it, I sprayed down the walls of the vertical container, and then ran the garden hose into the fishroom to rinse it out thoroughly. Once done, a new set of RO/DI filters were installed and the two-day process of refilling the polytank with 250g of water commenced.
Since 2011, all I've needed to do was cut open six bags of salt and pour it in. Not with a barrel of white powder. Googling helped me learn that each bag of salt was 6.6 kilograms. 6 x 6.6 = 39.6 kg or 87.3 lbs of salt. When I used the 200g bagged boxes of Fritz salt, I needed 1.5 boxes or about 90 lbs of salt. A 1-gallon bucket holds about 11 lbs of salt, so I added 8 buckets and that is mixing now. I'll give it a couple of hours and then see if that is close to the desired salinity (1.026sg).
Having 9" of space over the top of the container is a minor annoyance, but you do what you can.
I'll update with how it goes later.
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