without a powerhead you will be mixing that salt by hand, which can be a royal pain in a large container like that. Do yourself a huge favour and get a powerhead for mixing salt :-)
Once you figure out how man cups of salt you need per volume of water in that container it becomes quite easy.
1. Fill container with water
2. Turn on powerhead and heater.
3. dump in x cups of salt.
4. Got watch some TV, have coffee or take a bathroom break.
I do not use an airstone in my saltwater mix.
EDIT: That is unless you are doing small water changes in a smaller container, then mixing by hand I guess is fine :-) I mix a batch of 25g of new salt water the day before a water change in a garbage bin so mixing that sucker by hand would be painful. Even mixing salt in a 5 gallon pail is made easier with a small powerhead to stir the salt and water.
Last edited by kien; 01-19-2010 at 09:09 PM.
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