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Old 01/05/2008, 06:28 PM
Carnavor180 Carnavor180 is offline
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reef salt preferenecs

whats the best salt out there, price and quality?
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Old 01/05/2008, 09:21 PM
Randy Holmes-Farley Randy Holmes-Farley is offline
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I prefer to use Instant Ocean. I boost it by 70 ppm in calcium with Dowflake and 150 ppm in magnesium with MAG flake.
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Old 01/05/2008, 09:29 PM
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With the bromide concerns as of late, do you feel that constant buffering of the salt with those products is a concern?
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Old 01/06/2008, 01:48 AM
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The bromide issue is only with the Dow Flake. There's a sticky note at the top of the forum on salt product fixup with Dow Flake. It doesn't appear to be a problem.
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Old 01/06/2008, 08:18 AM
Randy Holmes-Farley Randy Holmes-Farley is offline
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With the bromide concerns as of late, do you feel that constant buffering of the salt with those products is a concern?

As Jonathan mentions, it is no concern for the way I use it, as I detail here:

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1275153
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