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Finally got the new 300 gallon mixing tank and supplies in. It is currently filling with RO/DI water. This will make WC's a snap. I still have to clean the outside but the inside is nice and clean.
Think you have enough salt Just how big is that thing? 100 gal? I hope you going to use a pump to transfer the water. Congrats, I can't imagine having to transfer 10 5 gal buckets of water every time I had to do a PWC. Getting to old to even move one very well.
Do you mix 300 gal at a time and just do weekly changes with part of it or just mix what you need?
How many gal do you change each time?
Your ro\di will be working overtime to fill that thing
I normally do 100-125 gallon water changes. I am going to keep the tank full and always mixing so if ineed to do a emergency WC it will not be a issue. I also have another tank that I just purchased that is not running so it will use up the water also.
civicman you are not far off on the price. MY LFS wanted $53 a bucket. So after finding a good purchase price and shipping it, I have about $29 a bucket in it.
I just hope you have FLOOD Insurance on that location. We'd have a saltwater frenzy in the storage spot if you got a flash flood or sprinklers went off or something.
I would not advise stacking your buckets that high. Eventually the ones on the bottom will start to cave in under the pressure. Three gallon buckets get stacked three high only as a general rule of warehousing.
Let's do the math, 1 bucket mixes 150g of water, 72 buckets make 10800 gal of SW. 300g to start, 10500g left for weekly water change. 10% water change per week, you have 350 weeks of supply. That is 6.7 years..... Holy........
OK, let's say $40/bucket, 72buckets is almost $3000..... Holy again....
If I do that, my wife will make me sleep in the garage until all salts are fininshed......
I go through about a bucket a week depending. so I have about 1.5 years supply. I also have a 180 gal tank I just bought so the salt will disappear pretty fast.