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Old July 2nd, 2009  
Fish Keeper
 
Salt crust on my FW tank

Hi..... in my tanks I use aquarium salt but after awhile salt crust stuff builds up on the filter, light, and top of the tank. Is their any way to stop this besides not using salt?
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Old July 2nd, 2009  
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I dont think thats salt matt its hard water deposits..do you have a well or are you on city water? you can just wipe it off when you clean the tank
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Old July 2nd, 2009  
Fish Keeper
 
I use city water but it is crust like hard and you have to scrape.... taste salty
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Old July 2nd, 2009  
Fish Keeper
 
Minerals dissolved in the water, when dried up into deposits on surfaces, will taste 'salty'. Likely they're calcium and magnesium salts from the rocks of the aquifer where the water was drawn from. You should be able to get them off with white vinegar, but I'd rinse the article really well then before returning it to the tank.
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Old July 2nd, 2009  
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ok thank you
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Old August 13th, 2009  
Fish Bum
 
Are you sure its not calcium? If its calcium then you can get it off by some hard scrubbing. Its not really preventable unless you use a salt creep remover on you equipment.
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