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Originally Posted by Amphibious  I then plug in a Mag 2400 pumping the water up from the bottom into a 100 micron filter sock.
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I love Anthony, he is a wise and generous man. I think in that thread he's trying to split hair finer than frog hair. |
Thanks Amph. Understood. Calfo has zeal and insight, but sometimes he seems like the "shock jock" of the reef keeping world.
One of my main motivators for finding a better method is because I have already tested 2 buckets of Reef Crystals to be low in
Ca, and a small bucket of Coral Pro to be lower in
Alk and Mg than has been generally tested/reported. Even though F&S confirmed my RC results, and Coral Pro has the
Ca level I was looking for, I cannot help but suspect that my method could be improved.
Is it not without reason that a low
pH in purified water could compromise the way that
Ca is dissolved into solution? Also, as an aside, wouldn't there be a benefit to having the purified water heated to tank temp before adding salt? Perhaps it doesn't matter how fast things dissolve, but after reading a few Randy Holmes-Farley articles with enough formulae to make my eyes tear, I come away thinking that these ionic balances are quite tenuous.
BTW: What is the sock for? Catching impurities in the mix?
