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Old 09-02-2005, 09:20 PM
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Oh ya! Ya gotta clean that too! What a chore I'm tellin' ya!
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Old 09-02-2005, 10:37 PM
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I'll tell ya too... laziness also has its pitfalls... you have any idea how many HOURS I have spent automating this thing???
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Old 09-02-2005, 10:58 PM
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Refractometers are temperature compensated by their nature....

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


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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.

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Old 09-02-2005, 10:59 PM
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Oh ya... one more for Steve...

"The aforementioned posts are strictly the opinion of the author and in no way are representative of broadly accepted or expert opinions on the subject matter. The author does not assume responsibility nor liability for improper use of said information as he may or may not have been on drugs at the time of writing"

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Good to see ya got the humour on that one Steve.... didn't want it to seem like I was busting your ba#@s... this is a great place for everyone to share their experiences...

Everybody remember.... we are all running separate CLOSED systems.... what may or may not work for one... may or may not work for someone else... but I don't care WHAT Steve says.... never add bleach!
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here is a temp conversion
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-07/rhf/index.htm
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Old 09-06-2005, 05:52 AM
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Of note in Holmes-Farley's article is that a swing arm type hydrometer doesn't require a temperature correction to be applied.

I stand corrected. Partially.

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