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How to Adapt a Ready-Made Remineralizer Recipe?
How to Adapt a Ready-Made Remineralizer Recipe?

Ready-made remineralizers don't always meet the individual needs of your aquarium. The Samomes system allows you to take any ready-made recipe as a base and adapt it to your specific requirements for hardness, mineral ratios, or tank volume.

Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Select a Base Remineralizer

  1. Open the "Remineralizers" section

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  1. Click "+ ADD"

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  1. In the "Recipes" dropdown list, select a ready-made remineralizer, for example: "Samomes Gh+ (sulfates)".

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Step 2: Study Initial Parameters

After selecting the recipe, study:

  • Reagent composition and their masses
  • Target parameters (Gh, Kh, ratios)

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  • Element concentrations in finished water
  • TDS and ion distribution

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Step 3: Adapting Reagent Masses, Gh Components, or Total Gh

Method 1: Direct Mass Changes

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  1. In the reagent mass fields, enter new values:
    • Calcium sulfate dihydrate: "1.5"g
    • Magnesium sulfate heptahydrate: "0.6"g

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The system will automatically recalculate all parameters.

  1. Observe changes in Gh, ratios, and TDS. In this example:
    • Gh value changed from "6" to "6.25",
    • TDS value from "140ppm" to "148ppm".

Drawback: This is the least convenient method, requiring multiple iterations.

Method 2: Changing Gh Components

  1. Change Gh values for individual reagents:
    • calcium component = 4 Gh,
    • magnesium = 2 Gh.

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The system will automatically recalculate reagent masses.

  1. Check the final Ca/Mg ratio for optimal value compliance.

Method 3: Changing Total Gh

  1. Change the "Total Gh" value from 6 to 5.

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  1. The system will recalculate all masses automatically, preserving proportions between reagents.
  2. The Ca/Mg ratio will remain unchanged.

Step 4: Adjusting Ca/Mg Ratio

If you need to change the calcium to magnesium ratio:

  1. Change the value in the "Ca/Mg" field from "3.5" to "4.0".

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  1. The system will recalculate masses while maintaining the total Gh value.
  2. Check how the anion composition changed on the Water change concentration chart.

Step 5: Saving the Adapted Version

  1. Give it a new name: "Samomes Gh+ (adapted)"
  2. Specify in the description: "Adapted version of Samomes Gh+ with target Gh=5"

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  1. Save as a new remineralizer, the recipe will automatically appear in your remineralizer list.

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Managing the Saved Recipe

After saving the remineralizer recipe, you can:

View parameters:

  • Click on the arrow to the right of "Samomes Gh+ (adapted)"

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Change parameters:

  • Click the "EDIT" button in the expanded list

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Delete recipe:

  • Click the "REMOVE" button in the expanded list

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Practical Adaptation Tips

  • Reduce total Gh to 3-4 if you're using very soft tap water
  • Set Ca/Mg ratio around 4 to 1 if your fertilizer contains high magnesium