Just A Thought...

[PRW1988]

Okay, so there was a thread ealier in the chit chat section regarding saving money... I never really thought of anything good, but something just popped into my mind about my soon to be brackish set-up, with regards to the water, during water changes your supposed to remove a bucket of water, then add in the other bucket of saltwater +/- .001 accuracy, so my thought was, could this water be boiled to get the salt back so you don't have to constantly buy new salt?

I know that you can boilocean salt water then you have a pot of salt left, so would it work? Or does the salt lose some kind of property that makes it compatible with the water?

 

[nmonks]

No, you can't do this. Even though you'd boil away the water, the nitrate and most of the other pollutants would remain in the salt. So when you add water again, you'd be making dirty not clean brackish water. Also, the hardness is left behind, so each time you boiled the water away and then added more (if hard, alkaline) water the resulting brackish water would be that bit more hard and alkaline.

Cheers, Neale

 

[PRW1988]

Darn... thought I found a money saver there... thanks for the clear up...