Magnesium?

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  1. fletch

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    Just something I looked up ;) ::)

    Epsom salts, common name for magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, MgSO4•7H2O, a water-soluble bitter-tasting compound that occurs as white or colorless needle-shaped crystals. It was first prepared from the waters of mineral springs at Epsom, England; it also occurs as the mineral epsomite. Epsom salts is used medicinally as a purgative; it is also used in leather tanning, mordant dyeing, and as a filler in cotton goods and paper.

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  2. hottielover14

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    how would i use it to raise my mag. can u OD on mag. or epson salt in ur tank.
     
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    it wont work for me. i plug in my current value and my tank volume and i push calculate and nothing happens.
     
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  5. fletch

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    Try it again I just went to the link and it worked fine! :-/
    The results are on the bottom........... John
     
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  7. fletch

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    Nice link John ;) ;D Thank's............ John
     
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  8. JohnO

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    No worries John :)

    I'm always a bit sceptical about Mag additives as I think a lot of them are just Epsom Salts anyway.

    I remember buying some buffer once and it turned out to be just Baking Soda.

    John
     
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  9. GraviT

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    Well, epsom salts or not, I got some SeaChem Reef Advantage Magnesium suppliment. The instructions seem a bit easier to digest than the info I've found online thus far.

    On the mag calculator, it doesn't seem to work with Mozilla Firefox, and I suspect that Netscape may be about the same. Works fine with Internut Exploder though. ::)
     
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    i now know why my calcium wouldn't go up, even when i added liquid cal every day. My mag. is 810 ppm. I'm thinking of using epson salt to raise it. How much would i add and how fast will it return to normal. how does mag go down in a tank.
     
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