mixing saltwater

[tarpon]

If I leave the water mixing overnight with a powerhead would I still need to use dechlorinator? Or does it evaporate out?

 

[TheTodd]

I've always heard 24 hours for chlorine.

 

[h8z2luze]

You should be using RO water and shouldnt be any chlorine....

 

[tarpon]

Oh right I didn't think about the ro filtering out chlorine as well.
Those filters are expensive.

 

[Schism]

Oh right I didn't think about the ro filtering out chlorine as well.
Those filters are expensive.

They easily pay for themselves.

If you are using tap then i highly recommend using a dechlorinator like Seachem Prime. Tap has all kinds of things that are bad for a salt tank a good dechlorinator can atleast neutralize some of the bad things like ammonia and chlorine/chloramines.

If your are using RO then chlorine is filtered out in the process.

 

[Qube]

Oh right I didn't think about the ro filtering out chlorine as well.
Those filters are expensive.

If you are just starting out making your own water, you could look into something like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/0PPM-Portab...047?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item588e2553f7

I started out with one similar to this and it worked great!

 

[tarpon]

Dang that is a good deal!
And yeah I'm considering turning my freshwater 30 into a fowlr with just a fuzzy dwarf or Fu manchu lion and nothing else. The only thing is Fu manchus are supposed to be really hard to accept frozen.