storeing the salt outside?
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joseserrano
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Just has to be air tight.
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nmo0ory
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yes all new salt in the bucket
so no problem with them at all with high heat
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Temperature changes and humidity is the enemy of sea salt mix and you may find it solid as a brick as a risk of doing this.
mike550
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Humidity / moisture can cause issues with your salt. It definitely can throw off your mixing if you weigh out your salt instead of measuring by volume. But Santa Ana is pretty dry right?
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nmo0ory
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all my salt is Instant Ocean and the selling on them is great they have rubber on the cover
i am in Saudi Arabia and its really dry
Salt & Peper
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Agree
Are you planning on buying a pallet? Given that you can get it shipped for free from amazon 2 day or even 1 day in many locations why not just store a single box or bucket at a time? While I certainly buy in bulk as long as I have enough for a large scale emergency water change I don't worry about have 1000s of gallons extra on hand.
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all my salt is Instant Ocean and the selling on them is great they have rubber on the cover
i am in Saudi Arabia and its really dry
Sorry for my mistake. I misread your ID!
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nmo0ory
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unfortunately this won't work with me
shipping is more expensive than the salt it self
in my country there is maybe only 2 shop that sell Marin equipment and you can imagine the price
so i managed to get around 50 bucket of salt with a good deal
its for me and for the my reefers friends
but i coudn't store all of them inside the house so i put them outside now
Sorry I didn't see your location. At the very least I'd work on getting it out of the sun. A shed would be great, a tarp or some sort of cover would also work. I really don't know what effect leaving it outside would be but as long as they are sealed buckets and not baking in the hottest possible sun it's probably going to be okay. Salt is shipped all over the world and it wouldn't surprise me to learn many are kept in unheated or uncooled warehouses along the way.
You might consider reaching out to the manufacture to get their thoughts. I'd hate for your good deal to go bad.
You might consider reaching out to the manufacture to get their thoughts. I'd hate for your good deal to go bad.
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nmo0ory
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oky great i will talk to them now
its only maybe 1-2 month then i will move them inside in a place i am getting it ready still
I would think that it will be fine in the sealed buckets. No humidity will be able to get to the salt.(not that there is much of that where you are) If it gets hot enough to melt the salt mixture inside the buckets you've got way bigger problems!
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