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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / September 2007salt water shelf life
i made salt water 2 weeks ago using ro/di unit and added salt. how long is it good for. > i made salt water 2 weeks ago using ro/di unit and added salt. how > long is it good for. It depends on the storage container. I have made water in a plastic trash can and had uncomfortable fish using it two weeks later. I've read recommendations that water be kept in darkness if not immediately used. My personal belief is that it would be ok if kept in glass containers. My personal experience is that it is definitely ok if used within a week and questionable after two weeks. YMMV. George Patterson If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess to anything. > stephencic...@gmail.com wrote: > > i made salt water 2 weeks ago using ro/di unit and added salt. how [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess > to anything. So that nmeans you really do not know huh George, but feel compelled to speak anyhow.What a f.cking loser you are George. Wayne has taught you well. Just say anyhting and folks will belive you...........If this question was posted in a bona fide marine group you woul dh ave had a bunch of replies and a correct answer by now. Shows yuo what good USENET really is.Go to SWF.com, creativereefing.com, or reefcentral.com, sign in and post questions and get answers.instead of a lot of carap and one dsided answers with no merit or basis for what they say............................................in this god forsaken sh.t hole of a wanna be marine group. Ask George if swallowing is safe or is it better to spit, and I bet he knows that one, as Wayne requires all to swallow if they hang here. It's good for ever. There is no shelf life for salt water. And some people think that you have to keep a pump moving the water, but you don't. However you do want to keep your dry salt fresh. Letting moisture get in messes things up. Wayne Sallee Webmaster@LeesburgNazarene.org stephencicero@gmail.com wrote on 8/31/2007 8:24 PM: > i made salt water 2 weeks ago using ro/di unit and added salt. how > long is it good for.  SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > It's good for ever. There is no shelf life for salt > water. And some people think that you have to keep a [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com NO ONE ASKED ABOUT f.cking SALT TO MAKE SALTWATER IWTH DUMBASS................. > It's good for ever. There is no shelf life for salt > water. And some people think that you have to keep a > pump moving the water, but you don't. However you do > want to keep your dry salt fresh. Letting moisture > get in messes things up. I have left saltwater for a couple of weeks without movement, in the white plastic buckets left from IO salt and I see salt/calcium deposit on the bottom. When stirred it was like white milk. One thing it could be the problem that I left the heater in the bucket set for 80F... maybe heat has done it?? > > It's good for ever. There is no shelf life for salt > > water. And some people think that you have to keep a [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > One thing it could be the problem that I left the heater > in the bucket set for 80F... maybe heat has done it?? Shut the f.ck up you babbling f.cking refuge idiot. No one cares what you say or think, and odds are the white crap is your butthole buddy Waynes love juices.. Pszemol wrote on 9/1/2007 8:27 PM: >> It's good for ever. There is no shelf life for salt water. And some >> people think that you have to keep a pump moving the water, but you [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > One thing it could be the problem that I left the heater > in the bucket set for 80F... maybe heat has done it?? High heat can precipitate calcium, but 80F is not hot. It was definitely not salt deposits. I assume you were using RO water? One thing that does show up in the salts, is clay. This clay can be white, or brown. With a good salt this is hardly noticeable, until many batches have been made, and it starts building up. The clay does not hurt anything, but it does not look good. Wayne Sallee Webmaster@LeesburgNazarene.org SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com Wayne Sallee wrote on 9/2/2007 8:37 PM: > Pszemol wrote on 9/1/2007 8:27 PM: >>> It's good for ever. There is no shelf life for salt water. And some [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Wayne Sallee > Webmaster@LeesburgNazarene.org Also make sure that moisture does not get into the salt. The 5 gallon buckets hold up against moisture real well. Wayne Sallee Webmaster@LeesburgNazarene.org SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com "Wayne Sallee" wrote in message: >> I have left saltwater for a couple of weeks without >> movement, in the white plastic buckets left from [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > High heat can precipitate calcium, but 80F is not hot. Heater is set for 80F but the glass surface might get much hotter than that, obviously... > It was definitely not salt deposits. > I assume you were using RO water? Whatever it is, it comes from the salt... I am using RO water and water is clear after mixing. It starts depositing white dust over time... When I took the cover loosely left over the bucket after two weeks I saw white deposits on the bucket walls, on the bottom and on the heater... Interestingly, heater had hard to wash deposits which came off when wiped with vinegear... > One thing that does show up in the salts, is clay. > This clay can be white, or brown. With a good salt [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > The clay does not hurt anything, but it does not > look good. If it was clay, than I would never see clear water. Water stays clear for a time, than deposits start forming. The other idea I have is that in the summer time, when intense A/C and less air circulation causes bigger CO2 content in the air and this might cause Ca precipitation from the mixture somehow amplified with the heater... But this is only guessing since I have not done any chemical tests... BTW - I have used such old water in a reef tank and made it very milky for a day but water cleared up nicely next day or so... The effect is kind of similar to overdosing kalkwasser - white snow. > "Wayne Sallee" wrote in message: > >> I have left saltwater for a couple of weeks without [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > up nicely next day or so... The effect is kind of > similar to overdosing kalkwasser - white snow. What a f.cking a.shole.there is no clay in god damed sea salts Wayne............Contrary to what the hell you nmay say its caclium or other trace minerals.....duh duh duh duh duh! And contrary to what you all th ink clay is used to clear up murky water too, that is collodial clay.aka bentonite.duh............but its not clay in salat water you idiot. And onmce its precipitated out, it will not go back into solution so there fore iot is not the greatest crap to use in a reef tank dickhead...................which is highly dependant on trace minerals and calcium.............I stil think that Wayne Sallee is the biggest a.shole and wanna be knowit all but can;t find his own a.shole in the dark on the usenet.followed closely by homosexual PSZEMOL..........................two f.cking idiots! Pszemol wrote on 9/2/2007 10:46 PM: > "Wayne Sallee" wrote in message: >>> I have left saltwater for a couple of weeks without [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Interestingly, heater had hard to wash deposits > which came off when wiped with vinegear... That would be calcium. >> One thing that does show up in the salts, is clay. This clay can be >> white, or brown. With a good salt this is hardly noticeable, until [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > up nicely next day or so... The effect is kind of > similar to overdosing kalkwasser - white snow. Maybe the salt that you are using has an excess of calcium. Have you tested newly made water for calcium, and KH? What brand of salt are you using? Have you tested your ro to make sure that it's nice an pure. Tap water will do that. Wayne Sallee Webmaster@LeesburgNazarene.org SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com Pszemol wrote on 9/2/2007 10:46 PM: > "Wayne Sallee" wrote in message: >>> I have left saltwater for a couple of weeks without [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Interestingly, heater had hard to wash deposits > which came off when wiped with vinegear... That would be calcium. >> One thing that does show up in the salts, is clay. This clay can be >> white, or brown. With a good salt this is hardly noticeable, until >> many batches have been made, and it starts building up. >> The clay does not hurt anything, but it does not look good. > If it was clay, than I would never see clear water. > Water stays clear for a time, than deposits [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > up nicely next day or so... The effect is kind of > similar to overdosing kalkwasser - white snow. Maybe the salt that you are using has an excess of calcium. Have you tested newly made water for calcium, and KH? What brand of salt are you using? Have you tested your ro to make sure that it's nice an pure. Tap water will do that. Wayne Sallee Webmaster@LeesburgNazarene.org |
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