Help with diy magnesium

[Pager880]

Hi all back again for some advice. Yesterday mixed. 3 cups of epsom salt to 5 cups magnesium flakes... In a 5 liter container. I used hot ro water walmed up with a heater. To help dissolve. Shook for about 5 minutes lol till most was dissolved then added a powerhead overnight night. And the whole thing was like milk this morning. Turned the pump off and the milky stuff has all settled at the bottom. Just will not fully dissolve what am i doing wrong.

 

[redfishbluefish]

Nothing wrong. Dr. Holmes-Farley talks about the calcium sulfate precipitate in his DIY article HERE.

 

[Pager880]

Nothing wrong. Dr. Holmes-Farley talks about the calcium sulfate precipitate in his DIY article HERE.

So its normal then.

 

[redfishbluefish]

To quote from the article, "There will likely be a precipitate that forms even if you fully dissolve both ingredients separately. That precipitate is calcium sulfate (calcium as an impurity in the magnesium chloride and sulfate from the Epsom salts). It is fine and appropriate to dose the precipitate along with the remainder of the fluid by shaking it up before dosing."

 

[Pager880]

To quote from the article, "There will likely be a precipitate that forms even if you fully dissolve both ingredients separately. That precipitate is calcium sulfate (calcium as an impurity in the magnesium chloride and sulfate from the Epsom salts). It is fine and appropriate to dose the precipitate along with the remainder of the fluid by shaking it up before dosing."

So just so i no.. This is normal then. As being told its because i may have a not weighed it properly. I didnt think you even needed to weight it. It jut a 3 to 5 ratio.. In 5 liters....

 

[Garf]

So just so i no.. This is normal then. As being told its because i may have a not weighed it properly. I didnt think you even needed to weight it. It jut a 3 to 5 ratio.. In 5 liters....

I use 3 and 5 heaped tablespoons in 1 liter. Works great, I also get a bit of precipitation.

 

[redfishbluefish]

So just so i no.. This is normal then. As being told its because i may have a not weighed it properly. I didnt think you even needed to weight it. It jut a 3 to 5 ratio.. In 5 liters....

You're normal, or as normal as you can be. If you had opened that link I posted above that had Randy Holmes Farley's DIY Two Part recipe, you'd see that he mixed 3 cups mag. sulfate (Epsom salt) / 5 cups mag chloride to one gallon.....and this was US gallons. With you using liters, assuming you're from some foreign lands....where you might also use imperial gallons. Either way, you have the ratio right, and that's all that really matters. Not sure what salt you're using, but for me I rarely need to add Mag.