salinity

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by reeferaddict

Refractometers are temperature compensated by their nature....

Not all you can buy temp compensated and non temp compensated refractometers.

Originally Posted by reeferaddict

Steve! I woulda thought YOU of all people would never do that! Right now I have an elegance that has been cranky for over a week now... why? Because I scraped my %$#@&&!! centre brace, and some salt creep broke off and snowed into the tank... so I AM speaking from experience on this one too... but just MY experience... I guess some people get away with some things...

how long have you had the elegance? they are cranky by nature are they not I used to have the center brace and when I scraped it things got ****ed for a few minutes then were fine. I mostly will dissolve the amount of salt I need to add in 1 gal of water weather it be two or 3 cups. then I will slowly pour it into the beginning of my sump. at this point I have a flow rate of over 150X/hour flowing through my sump and only about 25% of that is to the tank directly. so it ends up being a gradual mix over about 2 or 3 hours I would guess if I did the math but I am to lazy today and in to much pain to make the calculations (waiting to find out if I have to go for surgery or not at this moment).

I have also dumped a couple cups directly into that chamber of my sump also with mo ill effects but I would not recommend this unless you are sure it is not going to be dumped to the main tank to fast and I would never recommend putting "to strong" of a mix directly into the tank to fast.

Steve