Brightwell Neomarine Salt Mix

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Yes the water heats up when mixing salt, my container is not food grade plastic container maybe there is something there, no way for me to find out but I do have 55 gal. food grade barrel, I may have to consider using that instead. Yeah you’re right hannah have +/- 0.04 margin of error, plus 0.03 phosphate is fine with me as long as I dont see any issues with the tank, i will be closely watching it though.


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What storage container do you use to mix your salt? The neomarine salt heats up pretty high so maybe it’s breaking down your mixing container and whatever you had stored before may leach out when heated by the salts anhydrous reaction and making it precipitate out which can cause low alk. Meaning do you dump the salt all at once with water or do you sprinkle the salt lightly and mixing with a strong pump for circulation. Also I would recommend mixing it with cooler water vs warmer since the mix will get hot from the reaction. Reason why I don’t mix it warm is it will precipitate out too fast “heat up and dissolve at a faster rate making the chemical reaction change too rapid. I understand why the water heats up faster for the magnesium and strontium to dissolve quicker but that also means your soda ask or alk and calcium will react with each other.

As for phosphate in your source water you can run a cation ion di stage or my personal favorite spectrapure silicabuster Di which I think also binds with some incoming phosphate from your fresh water, I’d also check ro pressure and should be between 55 psi- 80 psi, higher the better if not add a booster pump I use a aquatic life booster buddy. Run dual chlormines carbon block from brs, and treat the new source water with some rowaphos in a reactor before mixing the salt and a little bit of prime for any chloramines that gets through the membrane. With my nsw mix batch from neomarine I would get 0.04 ppm which is where I am at currently. With 4 Di 4 carbon blocks and dual ro and a booster pump. I can go for a year without changing it out
dang you’re like the king of pure water! haha
 

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