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Old 04-11-2006, 07:07 AM
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It might be a pain to get it to disolve properly .Heating up the water might help ( not boiling ) What does any one else think ?
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Old 04-11-2006, 12:11 PM
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I am going to post the other side. some has hardened, so we might look at it as improper mixing (not that you did it but the same results type thing) where you add the water to the salt, it forms super saturation and falls out of solution forming different compounds. so what I am saying it that because some of the material has already had reactions because of the moisture it might be in a useless form (non soluble) so you might not get proper Ca, Alk ect. levels. also depending on your luck you might get different concentrations in your mixes.

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Old 04-11-2006, 12:22 PM
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It might be a pain to get it to disolve properly .Heating up the water might help ( not boiling ) What does any one else think ?
I never had a problem with dissolving salt that had oxidized.

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Old 04-12-2006, 10:49 PM
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I've made up over 20G of water and there is some white particulate that is not dissolving, or is dissolving verrrry slowly. The water is heated and has a PH in it. I'll have to test the water.
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