reusing salt

[jmreef]

Hey everyone, my roommate asked if you can reuse salt from the water changes? It might be a dumb question, so if it was sorry! I thought about evaporating the water out

[Poseidon]

Only if you want to put all crap you took out back in.... ;)

[CharlotteSteve]

You minus well leave the water in there. The contaminants/phos/nitrate doesn't evaporate.

[Future]

Salt is basically an absorbant even though when diluted it's not visible to the naked eye. What happens is the liquid (water) will dilute the salt and anything else that comes in contact with it. Then as evaporation begins the salt will moleculary combine with whatever else came into contact with the water. The end result could end up being something like Salt/Oil/FurniturePolish/Smoke/Dust on each grain of what you would otherwise think of as nothing more than Salt.

I'm not a technical speaking kind of guy, so I don't know the actually technical terminology for the bonding stuff..ha ha

[CharlotteSteve]

I agree with the salt issue, thats just craziness. I have always wondered about the temp issue. I've been diving with coral in the carib and atlantic and i have never felt 80 deg water. I feel like it's always colder, esp. at 10-30ft with a "farmer john" style wet suit. Maybe it's the water making me colder, next time I will have to take a thermometer. what do you think about keeping a reef/fish at 78?

[CharlotteSteve]

Thanks for the insight. I will slowly turn my tank up. mayby a deg F every day. I want to stay on the lower edge of the range until I get comfy. The more I think about it, my reaction as a warm blooded animal going from 98 deg to 80 deg may feel colder because heat is easily escaping my body through water rather than air. Thanks for the advice and the links from reef.org are awesome, I think I may take my skimmer off, or only run it for a day out of the week too.

[kgross]

Besides the above listed reasons, it will not work. When the salt drys different salts are created, and some of them will not redissolve in fresh water.

Kim Gross