batch water mixing??? - Page 5

martym · #41 07-05-2005, 07:47 PM

Brad, do you keep it heated and circulating?

Aquattro · #42 07-05-2005, 07:48 PM

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Brad, do you keep it heated and circulating?

My rubbermaid, yes. 5g jugs, no. Just store them in the dark. Before using it, maybe dump it back and forth between a couple of buckets just to aerate it,

monza · #43 07-05-2005, 08:03 PM

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Brad, do you keep it heated and circulating?

No I'm not Brad but here ya go anyways.

If I keep the water around for a bit, I've found I don't have to heat my ruppermaid with a heater, the pump circulating does that fine. If it's a fresh mix to use right away, I toss in a heater. .

Dave

martym · #44 07-05-2005, 08:37 PM

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the help.

medican · #45 07-05-2005, 11:26 PM

Here is what I use, minus the Mag 2 that sits in the middle for filling mix tank, buckets and circulating

Freash on the left, you can see the float switch and it is all run by a timmer so the ro/di unit will run about 1 min every hour through the night till full then the float over rides everything.

And mixed on the right able to mix with a Mag 2 and a heater holder near the upper output. I have held ro/di water up to 2 weeks and salt up to 1 week with no increased readings or illl effects.

adidas · #46 07-06-2005, 12:11 AM

nice setup richard, gonna hire you to setup my fish room next winter

medican · #47 07-06-2005, 12:31 AM

I'm there for you......

adidas · #48 07-06-2005, 12:40 AM

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I'm there for you......

Murminator · #49 07-22-2005, 04:22 AM

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Mine did read "some" nitrates enough to move it off zero but not enough to move to the next number, which I think is 20

20 would be pretty high.. What kind of test kit are you using?

Aquarium Pharmaceuticals I haven't went looked at it if I remember it starts a zero and goes up in increments of 20 up to about 160 /ppm.
I'm at work so thats why I can't check

Ok lets revisit this one my test kit go as 5,10,20,40,80,160....so it was closer to 5 than zero

My make up water has been sitting in a cube jug now since about June 10 ...so 41 days I opened up and tested for nitrate and it tested zero bang on

last test almost a month ago gave me a reading around 5. So I reclosed the jug and shook it up and retested and zero again I never did any other tests just the nitrate, one thing I did notice though there was a lot of junk in the bottom like rust flecks some were a good size I filtered it through one of the ol ladys nylons and used it.....i'll see if everything is alive in the morning. I still have about 2 gal left in that jug so I'll leave it another month see what happens

P.S I used the water NOT the nylon

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #50 07-22-2005, 06:21 AM

Don't let the wifey hear you call her "the old lady"