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Hi I’m new to mixing my own salt water. I use redsea coral pro. I do a 10L water change every week. I follow the recommended 38.2g per litre of RO water, so for my 10L water change I would require 382g. I test salinity around 1.5 hours after adding the salt to find I have a specific gravity of 1.022, so I added some more salt to make it 1.026. I then tested the DKH to find it was 13.5?! It’s this water with elevated DKH safe to put in my tank?

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are if you want the levels higher but not extremely high you could mix half blue bucket half pro bucket
 

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Its normal for coral pro to be in the 12ish dkh range. I treat it like dosing though. For small water changes, use coral pro. For larger changes I use blue bucket.

You can also do a 50/50 mix between coral pro and blue bucket on every water change.

Just watch your tanks alkalinity. You dont want huge swings because of water changes.
 

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