commercial salt substitution

[FLESHY]

How much is it going to cost you?

 

[shark_curious]

about $8 per 100 gallons so about $23 for me assuming i can find everything i need where i live.

 

[FLESHY]

Man, interesting.

Send me the recipe.

 

[FLESHY]

Better yet, post it.

 

[Deano1956]

Whoops! Got ninja'd...cool that you got in touch with mattiej.

An algae scrubber works to keep nitrates and phosphates down, but it pulls, and wont replenish EE's in a tank. H2o changes are necessary.

Last note, after reading through a couple threads on the matter, it looks like that actually might be (I think it probably WILL be) more expensive than just buying your salt in bulk. Plus whatever your time is worth.

I've been using that recipe for nearly a year now: 1/3 the price of IO maybe a little more with the Essential Elements, takes about ten minutes (at most) to mix the ingrediants and with Mortons newer solar salt being much more pure, the barrel will be clear by morning, cheaper bags of Sodium Chloride were taking a good 24 hours. I used to buy the 200 gallon IO boxes at 32.00 and I figured this recipe to cost me 8.00 per 100 gallons so its not more money by far and my Rays are healty and growing. My daughter also uses it in her 55 gallon tank with a few fish and sadly she does not take care of her tank, so I dont know why her Cleaner Shrimp died as far as if it was the water or her neglect. I have heard from Mattiej that it's hard on inverts although I have lots of snails in my pool. Want to try some more fish in there soon since I see no signs of mating. BTW IO would now cost 42.00 at a wholeseller

 

[FLESHY]

Sounds good to me, I am just worried about testing it out on inverts.

Cheapest online recipe I can find works out to be about 0.25 a gallon...which is why I am asking.

That being said, I can get IO for $42 on sale at Fosters & Smith online...which is like $0.25 a G. Or less.

You can also buy salt wholesale from them that comes in even lower.

 

[Deano1956]

The invert thing is a questionable thing, unless you were to add the right essentials? how much do you have to buy at a time to get it at wholesale price?. I would think you have to buy it direct to get ws price.

 

[shark_curious]

can you give a list of products you use for the chemicals?

 

[FLESHY]

I dont know what wholesale price is, because $0.25 is better than anything I can do, or any recipes I have seen, plus my time, and the re-assurance that the salt is of high quality.

 

[nonstophoops]

I dont know what wholesale price is, because $0.25 is better than anything I can do, or any recipes I have seen, plus my time, and the re-assurance that the salt is of high quality.

+1

I think you will make more problems than the small amount of money you save, if any.

I would much rather have the peace of mind than try to skimp on the actual environment my livestock live in.