Keeping Salt!

Menez · 05/14/2009, 01:08 AM

If you mix up a container of salt with water and leave it to one side so you can use it only when you going to do water changes, how long can you leave it there? will the mixture go bad?

laugh · 05/14/2009, 03:53 AM

As long as it is covered I have heard of poeple storing it for two months.

daudelus · 05/14/2009, 07:15 AM

+1 as long as it is covered it should last indefinitely, and I would put in a pump for aeration. the biggest factor is having something get in the storage container and spoiling the batch.

billdogg · 05/14/2009, 07:43 AM

i just keep a maxijet running in y 55g barrel - it's good for as long as you want it to be, IMO

WDLV · 05/14/2009, 11:05 AM

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Originally posted by billdogg
i just keep a maxijet running in y 55g barrel - it's good for as long as you want it to be, IMO

I'll second that. I usually mix up a batch as soon as I use one up. Life occasionally gets in the way of water changes and it sits. I have gone several weeks with no ill effects. My 55 gallon drums are uncovered. I don't even take particular care to avoid syphoning the dust that collects in the bottom or bother to clean them out but about once a year. I figure it's the same dust that settles in all my systems.... which like everyone I know are also uncovered.

05/14/2009, 01:08 AM	#1
Menez Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Gibraltar Posts: 147	Keeping Salt! If you mix up a container of salt with water and leave it to one side so you can use it only when you going to do water changes, how long can you leave it there? will the mixture go bad? __________________ ______________________ What goes around, comes around!!!! Dustin

05/14/2009, 03:53 AM	#2
laugh Member of the Registry Join Date: May 2004 Location: Northeast Ohio Posts: 1,226	As long as it is covered I have heard of poeple storing it for two months. __________________ NORK President Current Tank Info: All gone

05/14/2009, 07:15 AM	#3
daudelus Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Elizabethtown, PA Posts: 177	+1 as long as it is covered it should last indefinitely, and I would put in a pump for aeration. the biggest factor is having something get in the storage container and spoiling the batch. __________________ ------------------------- 55g long mixed reef. 60lbs LR, 2 x 150 HQI 15k MH, BH 1000 Octopus HOB Skimmer, Sumpless, 2x Hydor Koralia 3s + 1x Hydor Koralia 1, HOB filter for Carbon.

05/14/2009, 07:43 AM	#4
billdogg Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Grove City, Ohio Posts: 10,806	i just keep a maxijet running in y 55g barrel - it's good for as long as you want it to be, IMO __________________ I'll try to be nice if you try to be smarter! I can't help that I grow older, but you can't make me grow up! Current Tank Info: 120 mixed reef with 40b sump, RO 150 skimmer, AI Sol Blue x 2, and a 60g Frag Tank with 100g rubbermaid sump. 2 x Kessil A360w lights, BM curve 5 skimmer