We recommend keeping the level of salt in the brine tank about half full for most households. Larger households can start out with more. Let the salt level drop down to the water level before adding more salt. Potassium should be kept as close to the water level as is practical to help prevent a “salt bridge”. Periodically you may experience a salt bridge. A salt bridge occurs when the salt forms a crust right at the water level in the brine tank.

The amount of salt placed into the brine storage tank has nothing to do with the amount of salt used during the regeneration cycle. Water will dissolve and absorb salt only until it becomes saturated. A given amount of brine (salt saturated water) contains a specific amount of salt. Just make sure that there is at least enough salt for a regeneration cycle (12 lbs. in the case of our unit). Most homes are plumbed with ?" copper pipe (in larger custom homes might be 1").

Normally it is not necessary to clean the brine tank. In time dirt and silt can build up in the brine tank and if you choose you can clean it out. Let the salt level drop down very low. The night before you clean, manually regenerate the softener. Disconnect the brine line and dump out the old salt, (Do not dump the old salt anywhere near living plants). Reconnect the brine line, add about (3) gallons of water, and add the new salt.

Aqua Pure does not recommend for the brine tank to be elevated above the resin tank. During the brine and slow rinse cycles, the brine may be used too quickly because the elevation could cause less restriction on the injector, thus allowing all of the brine to be used too soon.

Usually it is not necessary to clean out a brine tank, unless the salt product being used is high in water-insoluble matter, or there is a serious malfunction of some sort. If there is a build-up of insoluble matter in the resin, the reservoir should be cleaned out to prevent softener malfunction.

The Water Quality Association has performed studies on this subject. These studies have indicated that a properly placed septic tank that works adequately cannot be damaged by brine that is discharged from a water softener. And softened water can sometimes even help reduce the amount of detergents discharged into a septic tank.

Yes. Any CUNO water softener may use either Potassium or Sodium Chloride as a re-generant without changing settings. This is of special interest to anyone on a sodium-free or low sodium diet.

That primarily depends on what fish you have - some need salt, some hate it, many may benefit from a little. Here is a short thread which outlines the basic pros and cons.

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Cover the bottom of a small glass jar with washed rock crystals and add enough filtered or artesian water so that you have three times the amount of water as crystals. The brine can be used after two hours, but allow 24 hours for it to reach a full saturation point of 26% in solution. Start with one drop per day and work up to a maximum of one teaspoon per day. Take in a glass of pure water on an empty stomach. The brine is very powerful so start slowly and find the proper amount for your body.

For meat curing purposes, a brine, also known as a sweet pickle cure, is a mixture of Morton® Tender Quick or Morton® Sugar Cure (Plain) and water. This mixture is then pumped into the meat or the meat is placed in the brine and refrigerated for a specific period of time. Back to Top

It is advisable to check potassium levels about 2 weeks after beginning cesium, and then repeat it every two to four weeks. It is imperative that if you experience heart palpitations you have your potassium checked immediately.

The answer to this depends on the patient's heart failure severity. The Recommended Dietary Allowance of sodium is 2400 milligrams, but patients with Class III-IV heart failure should limit their intake to 2000 milligrams or less. top

Hatching baby brine is relatively easy. You can go the your local pet store and buy a hatching kit which includes brine shrimp eggs and a hatcher and follow the included instructions. Purchase a brine shrimp net if one is not included in the kit. You can also build a hatcher of your own out of a one-gallon jar with an airstone or as I do, use an inverted 3-liter bottle with air feeding from the narrow neck. I cut the bottom out of the bottle and save as a cover.

Mono Lake Brine Shrimp have two to three generations every year, and they live for up to 6 months. They all die off by the end of the year as the water cools. Cysts hatch the following April and the cycle repeats. Click here for more on Mono Lake Brine Shrimp. top

The granddaddy of soil elements is potassium. Potassium is the "Cation for Anions". No, we are not turning this discussion into a chemistry class. We're just quoting a world famous botanist, who said that potassium is the locomotive which pulls the other elements around the plant and helps maintain electrical balance within the cell. Potassium is the water pressure regulator of the plant kingdom.

Yes it can, depending on the type of forage and the soil potassium level. Recent British research showed that applying salt (50 lbs/acre) to perennial ryegrass pastures decreased forage potassium levels and increased forage sodium levels. This would be especially helpful to dairy farmers trying to reduce potassium levels in their dry cow diets. Excess potassium has been associated with milk fever and udder edema. It depends on the size of the steers and the quantity and quality of the forage.

Is there a humane way to terminate a plecostomas? Mine is acting really bad and he is definetely starving himself to death. I can't stand watching this, it's really sad Tracey Put the fish in a bowl of water and then into your refrigerator to cool. This is the best way to kill a dying fish humanely. <>>>< Angelfish should be kept with other angelfish.

Potassium iodide, also called KI, only protects a person's thyroid gland from exposure to radioactive iodine. KI will not protect a person from other radioactive materials or protect other parts of the body from exposure to radiation. Since there is no way to know at the time of the explosion whether radioactive iodine was used in the explosive device, taking KI would probably not be beneficial. Also, KI can be dangerous to some people.