[Soothing Shrimp]

Has anyone tried to mix Ro and SS together ahead of time to make a liquid solution to have on hand for water changes? That way, it is already made up and only has to be dosed into the change water?

 

[Raymond S.]

"ss" ?

 

[greenteam]

Salty Shrimp.

Do you mean like a liquid mix of it? Or premix say a 5g jug and have it sit around?

 

[Soothing Shrimp]

Like a concentrated liquid mix. So many drops per gallon type of thing.

 

[Julianzh]

I thought about this before. But I don't have any very clean container/jar on hand and gave up this idea. If don't use clean container or water, bacterial will grow in it.

 

[bostoneric]

Yeah it's called Shirakura liquid mineral

But I'm not to sure how well SS would mix in concentrated amount.
I wonder if adding it to boiling water would help, but than who knows what you'd get.

 

[Soothing Shrimp]

hmmmmmmmmm...I didn't think I'd have to sterilize the bottle...

 

[theurbantomato]

I wouldn't worry about sterilizing. Overkill. What is the expiry of liquid forms of mineral sln sold over the counter? Make a new solution every six months or so?

 

[oblongshrimp]

Never tried it...I make my water up ahead of time in 55gal barrels

 

[sbarbee54]

I never have but I just shelfed my SS, because I found a LFS that had a box full in the back of Nutrifin african Ciclid conditioner he sold me for 20$. Have 10 Bottle of it now... Yeah

 

[Soothing Shrimp]

wow. Good deal Sbarbee.