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I think the table salt is just plain NaCl maybe with some iodide and anti-caking agent.
The sea salt would contain a blend of minerals found in the sea.
BC
I was asking around starting up a tank and was told by my co-worker that Common table salt can be used... I am really skeptical but still what the diff between a $2 table salt and $20 branded marine salt?
Baby Steel!
I think the table salt is just plain NaCl maybe with some iodide and anti-caking agent.
The sea salt would contain a blend of minerals found in the sea.
BC
So meaning can plain NaCl Sodium Chloride be used for the Marine tank?
Baby Steel!
No ,
And i dont think table salt disolve well in tap water !
(rmks: correct me if I'm wrong )
This one I disagree... Table Salt and Marine Salt are same thing accept there are other ingredient or impurity in the latter...----------------
On 9/25/2003 11:33:51 PM
No ,
And i dont think table salt disolve well in tap water !
(rmks: correct me if I'm wrong )
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Salt that don't dissolve well are other non edible salt like KSO4, MgSO4... NACL shlould have no problem
Baby Steel!
No... marine creatures need more than just NaCl. Therefore, you need to get the sea salts.----------------
On 9/25/2003 9:49:35 PM
So meaning can plain NaCl Sodium Chloride be used for the Marine tank?
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BC
Hi Lim steel,
- I am pretty sure that common table salt cannot be used in the Marine tank to keep the fishes, else the Marine salt manufacturer have long close down
- One is for people to eat and the other is for the fish to live inThe purification method for both should be very different
- Marine salts will contain all the trace elements that the creatures required for their healthy living. If mixing Marine salts to tap water is too troublesome, what I does is to buy the seawater from the LFS at $3 for a container that contains about 30L ? U have to bring ur own jerry can container to buy the water.
- Just a piece of advice, dun used table salts for your Marine Tank, although I do not have concrete proofs to proof to u, but I am very sure it will not work, may for a short term, but defintely not in the long run.
Marlin
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Marlin
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limsteel: you can check out on the net or marine books, check for DIY salt water mix, which tells you how to mix your own saltwater at home, basically the "recipe" DOES include NaCl, BUT also gazillions other compounds to go with it. so 1) table salt usu is not pure NaCl, but yes freshwater aquarium salt should be NaCl. 2) even if you have NaCl, not sure if its sufficient!
table salt can contain the following
Tricalcium phosphate
magnesium carbonate
Magnesium hydroxide carbonate
calcium silicate
Magnesium trisilicate
ferric ammonium citrate
silicon dioxide
sodium ferrocyanide
magnesium silicate
propylene glycol
aluminum calcium silicate
sodium aluminosilicate
calcium phosphate
Iodized Salt can contain the following in addition
potassium iodide
dextrose
etc..
Wow Chris... [:0] that's a lot of stuff which I do not expect to be in our table salt.
May I know where is the source of your information? I would like to learn more of what I am eating with my french fries...
BC
search the web for salt.
I have already tried... "table salt", "salt composition", "table salt composition", "salt",...didn't manage to find anything similar to what you mentioned...
BC[:
FWAH... they add sand in our salt??
i think this is quite a stupid question the functions are different leh..
if u mix sea salt , u can actually smell the smell of ocean. if im not wrong, i heard somewhere the table salt gets changed into cyanide under exposure to light, i doubt so..
if u go and search the web, table salt contains inert cyanide
Sodium Ferrocyanide (potassium and calcium ferrocyanide too) is an anti-caking agent. Should not be confused with cyanide. This is due to the strong bond between the iron (Fe) to the cyanide (CN) group. Free cyanide will be very potent.
On a second look, the list of chemical above are mostly anti-caking agents. Hmmm... so it is likely that only or some out of the whole list is used as anti-caking agent. I wouldn't expect the whole lot of it to be used all at once. And they will be in very minute quantity.
Thanks to Chris for that piece of information.
BTW, sea salt on the other have contain large amount of Ca++, Mg++, etc. The chemical composition of it will be quite different.
BC
yes. it depends on who manufactures the salt.
if you get salt from dry salt flats. then you expect to find sand in it. I don't think people chemically produce pure salt. then find sand to add to it...
lol
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