Mixing salt

[kken6217]

I'm about to use Red Sea Blue salt. How much salt do I need to mix to achieve 1.026 salinity for 10 gallons. I'm making more than that but just to get the ratio to make multiples of that. Thanks.

 

[Jekyl]

I'm about to use Red Sea Blue salt. How much salt do I need to mix to achieve 1.026 salinity for 10 gallons. I'm making more than that but just to get the ratio to make multiples of that. Thanks.

Directions are always on the bucket. I believe it's 5 cups

 

[gbroadbridge]

I'm about to use Red Sea Blue salt. How much salt do I need to mix to achieve 1.026 salinity for 10 gallons. I'm making more than that but just to get the ratio to make multiples of that. Thanks.

Aren't there instructions in the box/tub?

They tell you how much and more importantly how to mix it.

 

[kken6217]

Absolutely they are. Plain as day. And there is no chart on the bucket.

 

[kken6217]

Interestingly enough, I Googled and saw a thread from a couple of years ago. Someone asked the same question and also said there were no mixing instructions on the bucket. Another poster posted this picture from his bucket. The OP said why do we have two different buckets?

 

[kken6217]

Directions are always on the bucket. I believe it's 5 cups

Thanks.

 

[gbroadbridge]

Aren't there instructions in the box/tub?

Absolutely they are. Plain as day. And there is no chart on the bucket.

There's normally a leaflet inside the tub/box.

If yours is missing see below.

 

[kken6217]

Mine did not have that leaflet. Regardless, they can't make it easy? I don't call that mixing instructions.

 

[KrisReef]

There's normally a leaflet inside the tub/box.

If yours is missing see below.

I don’t see the ratio on this

 

[KrisReef]

Mine did not have that leaflet. Regardless, they can't make it easy? I don't call that mixing instructions.

I think I add a cup and a half to a five gallon bucket, but I usually just guess and usually hit the mark after years of mixing.

My buddy at the fish shop did it by weight salt/ gallon and I think there are some tables available (that I don’t have) that can help you out.

Search under Randy Holmes Farley he is reliable for this stuff

 

[kken6217]

I don't either

I don’t see the ratio on this

I don't either. It could have been in code so I didn't want to dismiss it totally.

 

[kken6217]

I think I add a cup and a half to a five gallon bucket, but I usually just guess and usually hit the mark after years of mixing.

My buddy at the fish shop did it by weight salt/ gallon and I think there are some tables available (that I don’t have) that can help you out.

Search under Randy Holmes Farley he is reliable for this stuff

It looks like it is 2 1/2 cups 5 gallons, and so 5 cups per 10 gallons as @Jekyl said.

I will undershoot it and then add more as needed and they use the ratio going forward. I just got back in the hobby after about 8 years or so and don't remember how I did it back then. I was using Reef Crystals.

Thanks for all of the comments. I appreciate it.

 

[gbroadbridge]

I don’t see the ratio on this

Huh, it says 40.3 grams per litre of water for 35ppt right there on the bottom line
Maybe that's too exact...

 

[kken6217]

Huh, it says 40.3 grams per litre of water for 35ppt right there on the bottom line
Maybe that's too exact...

I did miss that too, however what kind of ****** mixing directions is that. Why don't they just put it in Latin? I don't even have anything to measure grams. Besides we still have to get back to the fact that MY bucket that didn't even have that leaflet.

Red Sea should start a new slogan. "We don't include mixing directions or enough bracing for our tanks".

 

[kken6217]

Well if my logic is correct, and that sometimes that is debatable

40.3 grams per litre of water for 35ppt

40.3 grams = 1.42 ounces
So 1.42 oz for 1 liter
10 gallons = 37.85 liters
37.85 x 1.42= 53.74 / 8 = 6.71

So basically 6 3/4 cups of salt for 10 gallons.

 

[Asm481]

I need to know why you can only mix for 4 hours. Doesn't the flow in our tanks equal mixing? What happens after 4 hours, does it ignite? Explode?

 

[kken6217]

I tried mixing in a 44 gallon Brute container. I probably have about 40 gallons in it. I tried 5 cups per 10 gallons....

 

[Tired]

Just about any salt mix should be right around 1/2 cup per gallon.

 

[kken6217]

Just about any salt mix should be right around 1/2 cup per gallon.

I would assume so as well. However I haven't been in the hobby for many years and don't remember what I used to do.

 

[gbroadbridge]

Well if my logic is correct, and that sometimes that is debatable

40.3 grams per litre of water for 35ppt

40.3 grams = 1.42 ounces
So 1.42 oz for 1 liter
10 gallons = 37.85 liters
37.85 x 1.42= 53.74 / 8 = 6.71

So basically 6 3/4 cups of salt for 10 gallons.

Depending upon what size cup you're using of course.

Using cups for measurement of dry solids is just plain wrong.