salt

"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"jthread" wrote in message
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Bought another 5 gal bucket of salt today. I hope it last more than a
month.

Thanks for your help. :-)

Well, I just got an e-mail from petsmart - they have even better sale now
:-)
All orders above $25 have free shipping, so a single bucket of salt would
ship to your doors for free. Offer lasts to November 7, coupon code
FALLFS.

I checked the nitrates this morning. It was unchanged from yesterday. Looks
like I maybe on the right path. I'll check out PS. Thanks again

"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
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Yep, the nitrogen is harmless. In fact the air that we breath is 78%
nitrogen.

Wayne Sallee



George Patterson wrote on 10/24/2007 10:25 PM:
jthread wrote:

I did ask about adding more sand and they said that was an old remedy.
But it can release bubbles of nitrogen into the water.

And those bubbles will rise to the surface, burst, and release the
nitrogen into the air. Then it's out of your tank.

Actually, I'm not real sure what he said.

I think I may have the nitrates under control. Removing the BB seems to have
made a difference. I had quite a few in both tanks.

Thanks for all the comments.


George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

Pszemol wrote:
I would suggest you try them: add this salt x 3 to your
online shopping cart and see how much you pay :-)
Then compare the same on the pestmart site - you will get it.

w/ free shipping, it's sweet.

--Kurt

"KurtG" wrote in message .. .
Pszemol wrote:
I would suggest you try them: add this salt x 3 to your
online shopping cart and see how much you pay :-)
Then compare the same on the pestmart site - you will get it.

w/ free shipping, it's sweet.

I am not sure if sweet is the right word... ;-)
It is pretty sneaky and dishonest advertising.
Free shipping you have to pay for... what an idea.

George Patterson wrote:
jthread wrote:

I did ask about adding more sand and they said that was an old remedy.
But it can release bubbles of nitrogen into the water.

And those bubbles will rise to the surface, burst, and release the
nitrogen into the air. Then it's out of your tank.

I think I'm missing a few posts, but I bet the person warning about the
bubbles was thinking Hydrogen Sulfide (HS) instead of nitrogen.

"jthread" wrote in message ...
I did ask about adding more sand and they said that was an old remedy. But
it can release bubbles of nitrogen into the water. I didn't specify calcium
sand though. I'll ask the LFS next time I go~ which hopefully won't be soon.
Every time I go in that place I spend at least $70.

Why ask people about something widely known and available
for you on the internet? Do a search on deep sand bed tanks.
This is not an old remedy... LOL This is a way to setup
tank to utilize natural processes helping you lower nitrates.
Think of the bottom of the ocean... how is it constructed?
:-) Layers of sand over layers, over layers: ultimate DSB.
So the DSB method mimics the Mother Nature in your fishtank.

Pszemol wrote:
I am not sure if sweet is the right word... ;-)
It is pretty sneaky and dishonest advertising.
Free shipping you have to pay for... what an idea.

I think it's free for orders over $175, so there is a price break.
Bucket of salt feels like about 50#, so that can't be cheap to ship.
Certainly less then my LFS (that gave me bad advice, so I have no reason
to support them).

--Kurt

Pszemol wrote:
Think of the bottom of the ocean... how is it constructed?
:-) Layers of sand over layers, over layers: ultimate DSB.
So the DSB method mimics the Mother Nature in your fishtank.

It's also useful for burrowing animals such as jawfish, shrimp, clowns, etc.

--Kurt

"KurtG" wrote in message news
Pszemol wrote:
I am not sure if sweet is the right word... ;-)
It is pretty sneaky and dishonest advertising.
Free shipping you have to pay for... what an idea.

I think it's free for orders over $175, so there is a price break.
Bucket of salt feels like about 50#, so that can't be cheap to ship.

I am not saying it will be cheap to ship - but a promisse is a promisse
and free shipping should be free, not $20 per bucket :-)

Certainly less then my LFS (that gave me bad advice,
so I have no reason to support them).

But other store, petsmart, sells similar salt with FREE shipping!

I am sure a bucket of Instant Ocean costs the same as a bucket
of Tropic Marin to ship, so why one store can do it and other
cannot?

I am personaly not happy with marinedepot.com sto
I got a metal halide lamp once and it arrived with some
strange, defective mounting hardware - the bulb had an orange
blob inside which was casting yellowish color into the tank.
It was a 14000K bulb and supposed to be blue, not orange...
I was very dissatisfied with this lamp but I had very hard
time with a return - they do not honor returns for the
dissatisfaction reason - check their policy before you buy.
It took me almost a month of several phone calls and finally
they accepted return doing me a "big favor"...
Other stores do not have such strict return policies like
marinedepot.com so make sure you get yourself familiar with
all the rules before you comit to the purchase there...
My experience cured me from buying at their store products
which cost a lot and I would have hard time returning in
case I would not like them. Free shipping with a $20 surcharge
per bucket is another blow to their reputation in my eyes...

Pszemol wrote:
But other store, petsmart, sells similar salt with FREE shipping!

Apologies. I'm always confusing marineandreef.com and marinedepot.com.

I just purchases salt from marineandreef.com with free shipping. They
always seem to have the parts that I'm looking for.

--Kurt