Switching salt

[troy tate]

morning all !
So I have a waterbox 130.4 I was using natural seawater but I am making the change over to aquaforest salt just wondering how many water changes will I need to do to make it a 100% aquaforest???

 

[KStatefan]

Depends on how big of water change

 

[blaxsun]

I don’t know if you’ll ever be able to reach 100% (short of replacing all the water in one fell swoop - which I wouldn’t recommend). But you should be able to get in the high 90’s over a period of time.

 

[KStatefan]

As @blaxsun said you would never reach 100% without doing a 100% change but that is not practical or needed.

 

[troy tate]

Depends on how big of water change

Would say doing 20% every week over the course of a few months ??

 

[blaxsun]

Would say doing 20% every week over the course of a few months ??

According to the chart, 10x 20% water changes will get you to about 90% new saltwater. So if you did this every week, about 2.5 months. Every 2 weeks, about 5 months.

 

[troy tate]

According to the chart, 10x 20% water changes will get you to about 90% new saltwater. So if you did this every week, about 2.5 months. Every 2 weeks, about 5 months.

That’s awesome thank you for the help much appreciated

 

[PeterC99]

morning all !
So I have a waterbox 130.4 I was using natural seawater but I am making the change over to aquaforest salt just wondering how many water changes will I need to do to make it a 100% aquaforest???

Curious as to why you want to make your saltwater 100% aquaforest?

The saltwater in our aquariums is so much more than a salt mix in RODI water - dosing additives, nitrate conversion, etc. It’s never 100% anything…