IO Salt

[Tbduval]

How many gallons of saltwater can a 50 gallon bag of IO salt make at 1.026? I am assuming it would be around 40 or so. Thanks!

[rireuter]

50 gallons of salt would make 1600 gallons of water, 5 gallons of salt makes 160 gallons of water

[sjm817]

A 50G bag of IO makes a nearly full 44G Brute worth of 35 PPT SW.

[Allmost]

50G of SW will be made at SG of 30PPT using all the salt in the bag.

how much water is made if SG needs to be at 35 PPT ?

(30*50) / 35 = 42.86 G



I think :P haha

[bertoni]

That seems about right to me. :)

[rireuter]

LOL, the bag Claims to makes 50 gal of water, the way I read it you had 50 gallons of salt, sorry

[Tbduval]

Thanks for the help. I want to buy the brute 44 gallon can but wanted to make sure it would hold enough for a full bag. It just seems easy to dump a whole bag into the water then to try and measure. Thanks again!

[Allmost]

Thanks for the help. I want to buy the brute 44 gallon can but wanted to make sure it would hold enough for a full bag. It just seems easy to dump a whole bag into the water then to try and measure. Thanks again!

you still need to measure the finall salinity

but its better to mix the whole bag, since u will be using the same ratios intended.

[Chris27]

Mixing the whole bag at once is ideal - you eliminate the chance for inconsistency which is common when making small batches.

[chuckreef]

I agree it is right about 42 gallons. I fill my mixing tank to 40, add the salt slowly in increments so it never sits on the bottom, mix it all overnight, and then the next day I adjust it to spec. I usually have to add one to two gallons of RO/DI to get to 1.026. This is for the tradidional IO bags.
FWIW there was a period where IO was making slightly larger bags, I think it was 5% or 10% more salt in the bag. Such bags say so on the bag.