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Old 09-02-2005, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by reeferaddict
Don't ever put concentrated salt directly into the aquarium... only fully dissolved prepared water... the dissolving action can burn a fish's gills, and inverts won't tolerate it at all. I know this may be a simple basic thing, but I cannot believe how many people think it's OK to dissolve a cup of salt in a quart of water and dump it in, or worse shovel salt directly out of a bucket into an inhabited tank!
now you tell me, I do it all the time. ad a cup to the sump and it mixes in over an hour.

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