Where to get Magnesium Chloride Hexahydrate
 

Hello everyone,

just wondering if anyone has found the Dead Sea Works magnesium chloride hexahydrate that is mention by Randy Holmes in his 2 part dosing recipe in Calgary Area, or maybe a substitute for this part?

Has anyone try doing this? if so, maybe a post of your tank size and how much of each part you use to help some of us getting started on this.

Thanks everyone.

Easiest is just to buy from Bulk Reef Supply. They ship to Canada every Friday via UPS and there is no brokerage fees.

Univar can get it for you. I bought a 50 lb bag of the Dead Sea material from them. They have locations across Canada.

Littlesilvermax has chems

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=26590

Here is a link for quantities, i have been using randy for a couple years now and it works great

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...l2004/chem.htm

And a helpful calc

http://jdieck1.home.comcast.net/~jdieck1/chemcalc.html

I would go with Chemmaster before BRS. He is in Canada so it will arrive sooner and he is cheaper. I am currently waiting for a BRS order to arrive and with the way UPS is performing I could be waiting a while.

Scott, you should be using the improved recipe.:wink:

I've been using Absolute Zero Melt Down de-icing salt for almost a full year now. http://envirotech.squarespace.com/me...absolute-zero/ You may be able to contact them to see if they have a distributer in your area.

calcium
 

so Univar sells to the public? do i just call them and order or they have a retail location?

i just found the dowflake at home hardware, they just ordered a bag for me for 24 bucks, i just need to go and see if that is in fact the one being mention by Randy. Once I get everything, it will be time to try, there will be a lot of questions then!!!!

quick question
 

Suppose I didn't want to make so much at once of Randy H-F's stuff, could i take his recipe and change it by using half of everything listed? that should give me the same properties right?

I have some DSW Magflake. How much did you need?

You might want to google Dowflake+Bromine.