need some help

[mike_dani]

Hey guys I am getting a 300 gallon tank in a couple of weeks and in preparation of it getting here I am trying to figure out how it is I am going to mix up 300 gallons of salt water...... Does anyone have a storage container that can hold large amounts of water? around 100 gallons or so I can rent it from you if need be.

I don't want to spend 800.00 for a 300 gallon storage tank to use it only one time.

 

[Avis]

55 gallon drum

We have a plastic 55 gallon drum that might work. You can borrow it.

 

[mike_dani]

awesome is it good for Saltwater clean all that fun stuff..... How have yall been, you need to come out to the house after this madness is completed or before and see how nice the tank is before I kill everything with a move......

 

[fullmonti]

You could just fill it with RO water & mix in tank when full?

 

[scouncil]

If you are going to add your sand/substrate after the water, you could just mix it in the tank. Put in the water, start adding a ton of salt and run a pump or 2 in the tank. I mix my RO/DI water and salt in a 35 gal plastic trash can. Dump in the salt, add pump and heater and it mixes up in about 90 mins. smaller additions of salt usually mix within 30-45 min.

Or if you do the whole set up (substrate in already) and have a sump, you could add the salt to whatever sump chamber doesn't have the pumps in it (though I guess it wouldn't hurt the pumps...) and let it mix that way. Just would take longer since I wouldn't think you would want to add that much salt at one time in the sump (fuge not in the loop of course).

I used the first method on my 220.
Susan

 

[Brshriver]

I filled my 210 with an rodi line. It was the leak test too. RODI adds slowly enough to prevent flooding. Then I added the salt to the tank with the internal circulation running.

I already had the sand in place and had no issues.


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