Newb needs salt measurements

[digitalbliss]

I was wondering if anyone had a general answer to about how many cups of seasalt are needed to achieve the correct salinity.
Just curious because most of the answers have just given the salinity I need to achieve not a general answer.

 

[Kabong]

Aprox 1/2 cup per gallon of water.
But you need to have someway of measuring the salinity.
preferably a refractometer or a pinpoint monitor.

 

[digitalbliss]

definately already planning that. just wanted a simple answer.

thank you.

 

[Sk8r]

I marked a CD packaging bucket with the correct salt measure for a 5 gallon bucket of ro/di. Saves a lot of time.

 

[AZDesertRat]

I use the little green plastic scoop that came in a big box of laundry detergent. It takes 3 level scoops per 5 gallons to get it to about 1.023 and then I fine tune from there.

 

[NCreefwannabe]

I dont have coral, but Ive had my levels up to 1.030 before for like 3 weeks. I never had disease or fish loss or invert loss for that matter. I dont have coral though.

From what Ive seen with other tanks, to much is better than not enough.... Even though mine was on cause of a crappy instant ocean swingarm... I usually mix a cup at a time and measure from there after each cup.