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Old 09-24-2008, 07:04 AM
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many years in this hobby, I had never heated or airated water before mixing salt
i will buy this RBS anyway if it is indeed the best
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Old 09-24-2008, 04:17 PM
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A box of this stuff says it mixes 150 gallons. What is inside the box? Is it three bags..each to do 50 gallons?
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Old 09-24-2008, 04:23 PM
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A box of this stuff says it mixes 150 gallons. What is inside the box? Is it three bags..each to do 50 gallons?
its one big bag...I dumped mine into some old pails I have...
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Old 10-01-2008, 10:17 PM
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I don't heat my water or airate my water either, and have never had a problem. With RBS I was told to take the bag out of the box and them mix it (by rolling it around) before using it. It is supposed to mix the salt with the elements better (in case it has settled). I don't know if this actually does anything, but I've been doing it right before I pour out the salt into another salt pail for storage and have always had good parameters when testing. (not quite as high CA readings as Aquatrro though, mine tends to sit around the 400ppm at 1.024)
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