What is the quickest way to dissolve aquarium salt? I have tried everything and I can't get it all to dissolve.

i just stir it in a glass of tank water then pour in retaining the undisolved portion. i then draw more tank water and stir that up. eventually you'll get most of it.

The way John described is the best way I have found and that is exactly how I do it. It will never completely dissolve since every source is not 100% pure.

What I have done is either put the salt in a container and put the whole thing in the tank. The other is to mix the salt with tank water in a cont. wait until it dissolves as much as possible, strain that into the tank then add water again and repeat until it is all dissolved.

Laurie

I put the salt in an old nylon stocking and hang the stocking in the tank it takes about 5 minutes and then rinse out the stocking. It works great.

I've never had a problem with my salts dissolving...i just put them in and they dissappear.

You should not just put the salt in the tank - it needs to be dissolved in a small amount of water before adding to the tank. The salt I use is chunky and takes forever for it all to dissolve. Thanks for the suggestions - guess I will just be patient!

Dont do like me and use and small amount of water, or it wont ever dissolve hehe. Water will only get so salty and then stop dissolving, you should have seen me I was trying to nuke it and everything and I couldnt get it to dissolve it was because I was using a tiny butterbowl lol, I changed the amount of water to a few gallons and it dissolved instantly, I felt like such a dork, good luck

Make that 2 dorks - that is what I was trying!

Too funny, yea I posted about the same thing, thanks to toothless and others let me know my mistake, now I just laugh at when I think about how long and many ways I was trying to dissolve that crazy salt, then how quickly once it dissolved when I added a good bit more water Hope that made sense, Im a lil :glup

that's sounds like a good idea, but if too much salt needs to be dissolved, this method is not recommend.. as this will bring up salt concentration at one spot unless the stocking is directly under a water current that will mix up the dissolved salt into the tank water..

usually I would stir in a cup with tank water.. it takes many rounds.. if salt grain is too huge, crush it!! most crucial part is when pouring salt solution into the tank.. I dun pour everything at one go into one single spot.. I would pour the salt solution evenly all over the tank.. this will raise salt concentration evenly and will not shock the fish.. if you pour everything in one spot, you will notice the salt solution sinks to the bottom.. and it takes a while to be mixed with the tank unless you pour it directly under a water curent then the water current will mix it up.. if not mixed, a fish is in for a shock when it swims from unsalted zone into this high salted zone!! no good.. thus make it a habit to spread evenly or at least make use of the water current if any..

cheers

The warmer the water it's in, the faster it will dissolve .

Get a cup of water from your tank, add the salt, zap in the mocrowave