Lazer Bubble wrote:What made you choose to leave those select elements out of the original recipe?
dlries wrote:So has anyone tried this out? I'm curious as to how others work to manage the costs associated with the salts. If you are using instant ocean and running say 800 gal of water total between tanks, sumps, lines, etc, and you are doing a 20% change every other week or so, that's 160gal of water you have to make every other week. The pale of Instant Ocean to make 160 gal of water is around $35 or over $900 a year.
I'm wondering if anyone has had any success with the home brew or if there is a way to reclaim the salts with out the other fun stuff we don't want in the water. Particals you can filter out, but I'm not sure how to purge out the other chemicals that you don't want carried over. You'd still have to supplement and replace the used elements, but I figured there had to be a way to reduce the expense.
acropora1981 wrote:acroporas,
you said that you changed the recipe to reflect the hydrated epson salt...did you post that updated recipe? i dont see it...
acroporas wrote:29.1 g sodium chloride (water softener salt)
10.65 g magnesium sulfate heptahydrate (epsom salt)
1.16 g calcium chloride (ice melter)
0.172 g sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)
0.68 g potassium chloride (food supliment: available from amazon)
0.097 g potassium bromide (used for developing film: available from B&H or amazon)
0.026 g boric acid (antiseptic: available from amazon)
0.019 g strontium chloride (Kent turbo strontium)
SteveH wrote:After it's all said and done, does it end up costing less than a regular bucket of salt?
Dman wrote:SteveH wrote:After it's all said and done, does it end up costing less than a regular bucket of salt?
From the last line in my first post:
I ran a cost analysis and this works out to about $6.83 for 150 gallons.
So ya, I'd say it costs a fair bit less.
As for making this on a larger scale, we were doing it here for about a year, at a rate of 50% with IO. But with the demise of a good portion of our broodstock (another matter entirely) coupled with the onset of higher bromide contents in the Dow Flake, we've switched back to 100% IO until further notice. (or at least until I can source an alternative to Dow)
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