About one year ago wefound ourselves at the Omega Sea booth在Aquarama,对自己进行思考,少于17磅的盐混合物的袋子可能会产生60加仑的海水,从而以自然的盐度,钙和碱度等自然水平,而“盐混合”少得多。与Uber信息丰富的代表布莱恩·摩尔(Brian Moore)进行了长时间的讨论,我们的思想被吹嘘everyone else’ssalt mix which all include a hydrated form of Magnesium Chloride.
含水镁,氯化镁,MGCL2·6H2O,包括六个含镁分子的水分子,这是典型海水盐混合物的“水重”的一部分。通过在其盐混合物中使用无水形式的氯化镁可以提供更活跃的盐混合物成分,并且从本质上讲,无水MGCL2携带的杂质较少。
If that sliver of a chemistry lesson went over your head, all you need to know is that the result of using a “dryer” Magnesium Chloride is an aquarium saltwater mix that dissolves into freshwater very quickly, and it results in an exceptionally clean natural seawater formula. For even the best of salt mixes we typically will let the freshly mixed salt settle out its particulates that don’t fully dissolve, and/or pass it through some form of fine mechanical filtration to extract the cleanest seawater possible for use on the home fish, reef and coral tanks.
在过去的一年中,我们一直在使用Omega Sea的Premium Reef&Marine Salt混合时,我们最近获得了更多precise seawater measurement equipmentand took them to testing the accuracy of Omega Sea’s claims that a single bag deliver 20% actual seawater mixes. Since we do most of our small batch mixing of aquarium seawater in a 29 gallon aquarium, it was easy to “ballpark” that the Omega Sea did produce more seawater than the other guys, but did it really produce the 60 gallons claimed?
为了进行此评估,我们仅测试了欧米茄海高级礁海水混合物,然后进行了两批有希望的海水混合物。随着29加仑的水族馆充满了边缘的毫米,我们几乎没有设法添加半袋Omega Sea Premium Reef Salt Mix,并将其混合而没有(太多)飞溅。Veteran marine aquarists who know how it takes a solid hour for ‘legacy’ salt mixes to begin clearing up would believe they are witnessing magic at the sight of Omega Sea Premium Reef Salt, with the water clarifying practically in front of your eyes as the solution becomes completely dissolved.
With only ten minutes of agitation the Omega Sea Premium Reef salt mix is completely dissolved with only very fine microbubbles affecting the clarity of the water. We slightly overshot the first batch in the 29 gallon mixing aquarium which came out to a salinity of 38 ppt with a specific gravity of about 1.0285 at 77F degrees. Adding the remainder of the bag of seawater mix to another 29 gallons of freshwater yielded approximately a seawater salinity of 32 ppt with a specific gravity of 1.0235 at 77F degrees. Averaging those two salinities we get an average of 33.5ppt for 60 gallons.
考虑到我们绝对不-laboratory setting, and the inaccuracies we invariably produced in our handling of the salt, freshwater & seawater, and the limits of precision in our ability to measure salinity, temperature and specific gravity, we believe that Omega Sea’s Premium Reef Salt mix really does mix up 60 gallons to full strength seawater. The bag of PremiumMarine盐与其平均钙,镁和碱度的平均水平混合在一起,可能带有更多的盐,以达到或超过35至36 ppt海水的水分,以供60加仑的水。
为了评估欧米茄海洋的海水混合物,我们主要对所产生的海水数量以及混合的速度和干净含量感兴趣。我们将给予疑问的好处:钙,镁和碱度处于“理想”水平,无论这些水平都非常主观。但是对于测试的参数,欧米茄海高级礁盐混合物确实很快就混合了60加仑非常干净的海水。[[Omega Sea这是给予的
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