How Much Salt Is Required ?

[hammer99]

Hi,

A question for experience Bro.

How much salt is required in a Tank of the following specification ?

3ft x 2ft x 2ft

with 15kg of live rock

The lfs owner told me 4kg is sufficient

I seriously doubt his recommendation; Any way I'm using Red-Sea salt.

Any Bro. has any left over ?? I can buy from you all ??

Thanks

[nleong]

Use a hygrometer. You should want an SG of about 1.02 - 1.025. So you decide how much salt you need depend on how much water you want to put into your tank.

[hammer99]

Hi,

Any brother have set up their tank recently,

I would like to have a rough guage on the amount of salt require;

so that I would not buy too much or less than the required amount .

I have use the url in the sticky thread, I jus wan real-life experience from bothers in the forum.

[panlee]

Use a hygrometer. You should want an SG of about 1.02 - 1.025. So you decide how much salt you need depend on how much water you want to put into your tank.

Yes get a meter. How much salt to acheive 1.02 - 1.025 depends on the brand of salt you use. You might want to measure how many cups of your brand of salt make it, it will make your subsequent mixing easier.

[SpiderOne]

roughly 6

[blue.tang]

try 3 kg first & then measure the SG..fm th u can est how much sal u nd

[Kalib]

Use a hygrometer. You should want an SG of about 1.02 - 1.025. So you decide how much salt you need depend on how much water you want to put into your tank.

Erm... Just to point out something here. Its hydrometer not hygrometer.

Hygrometer is those which weathermen use to measure humidity in the air.

Hydrometer is for measuring the SG of SW.

Think this will work for a big tank like urs.. fill up tank with FW first. Then you siphon out a pail of water from the tank. you mix the salt in that pail, then u pour the pail of water back into the tank(Make sure the SG of the water in the pail is measured at 1.023-1.025). Then measure the SG of the tankwater. Keep repeating until the SG of the tankwater is at 1.023-1.025.

[Tanzy]

Theoretically, to acheive saltwater of S.G. 1.025 you will need to add 0.025 kg/L or 25g of salt per kg of freshwater but often the salt crystals contain water of hydration so the required amount of salt will be slightly greater than the theoretical value.

[bawater]

First of all, calculate your volume. then get the litre and gallon measurement of it.

REMEMBER it, later on you will be dosing additives/supplements based on your total volume.

calculators

Then buy the salt brand of your choice, behind the packet will be the mixing instructions. usually half a cup of salt makes 1 gallon of saltwater. Adjust the salinity to your preference by adding more salt or water.(to measure it you will need the hydrometer everyone mentioned)

You can mix in the tank (if its new) or in a pail.

if its your first time...i would strongly suggest getting a real marine saltmix, not those un-labelled packs of salt being sold in LH convert to marine death shops.

rgds