Can you over mix salt?

[ILikeFish!]

Sometimes when I make water for water changes I get lazy and forget about it and it stays mixing for almost four days sometimes, is this bad?

 

[TheBear78]

Is it mixing via pumps and/or powerheads like the salt water in your DT?

 

[ILikeFish!]

Is it mixing via pumps and/or powerheads like the salt water in your DT?

I put a power head in the water to mix it.

 

[Stephen8169301]

Sometimes when I make water for water changes I get lazy and forget about it and it stays mixing for almost four days sometimes, is this bad?

No i usually mix mine couple days prior to help stabilize my ph(I do t know if this is true but it is what it is lol) but always check salt measurement because of evap.

 

[hoffmeyerz]

I use a 50gal blue water barrel that I plumbed in two pipes for mixing driven by a panworld pump. I leave it running with a heater inside all the time, that way the water is always up to temp and ready to go. Never had any measurable changes in anything.

 

[Dan_P]

Sometimes when I make water for water changes I get lazy and forget about it and it stays mixing for almost four days sometimes, is this bad?

With adequate mixing, the salt is dissolved in minutes. What happens to the solution afterwards, mixing or not, doesn’t matter

 

[Derrick0580]

Only issue I’ve ever had doing that was salinity going up due to evap of the water in the brute….problem solved with a lid!

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

You should check the instructions of your salt mix. Red Sea Pro Salt, for example, is very specific. Its supposed to used within 4 hours of mixing, and should not be heated above a certain temperature, or you risk precipitation.