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View Poll Results: Which salt mix do you use? | |||
Instant Ocean | 158 | 28.06% | |
Reef Crystals | 171 | 30.37% | |
Marine Enterprises Crystal Sea Marinemix | 4 | 0.71% | |
Marine Enterprises Crystal Sea Bioassay Laboratory Formula | 7 | 1.24% | |
Oceanic | 49 | 8.70% | |
Red Sea Coral Pro | 67 | 11.90% | |
Instant Ocean/Oceanic 50/50 mix | 8 | 1.42% | |
Tropic Marin Sea Salt | 36 | 6.39% | |
Tropic Marin PRO-REEF | 41 | 7.28% | |
SeaChem Marine Salt | 4 | 0.71% | |
SeaChem Reef Salt | 27 | 4.80% | |
Kent Sea Salt | 20 | 3.55% | |
Marine Environment dual phase formula | 7 | 1.24% | |
Coralife Scientific Grade Marine Salt | 22 | 3.91% | |
OceanPure PRO | 6 | 1.07% | |
Catalina NSW | 9 | 1.60% | |
Another form of natural saltwater | 8 | 1.42% | |
Other salt mix | 15 | 2.66% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 563. You may not vote on this poll |
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I just ordered a 160 gallon bucket of Reef Crystals from drsF&S--they have it on sale right now....good deal!
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They often run sales on RC. It's what they use on their coral farm.
IMO, a very consistent balanced salt mix for the reefer with mild to average stocked tanks. |
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I got the Reef Crystals yesterday! I am gonna switch from IO/Oceanic to Reef Crystals (when my IO/oceanic is gone). The 160 gallon bucket of Reef Crystals also came with a free t-shirt! $31.99
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Great price for a bucket of salt mix.
Can I have your T-Shirt |
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Has anyone ever taken a real world set of tests of any salt mix, with all the basic tests for a reef and come away saying, "I don't have to buffer anything!!"? Alk, PH, Ca, Mg, etc. etc , all are in very good balance and not thinking in the slightest, that one or the other might need to be upped a bit?
Is this too much to be asked? I mean seriously, we are paying $30-80 per 5 gallon bucket for a mix of the cheapest things on the planet and none that I have heard of, have gotten it right!! Ofcourse this is a specialized hobby and we all expect to get screwed when it comes to price but one would think the screwing in quality, would be on the lower price range and the ones who didn't want to pay extra for any buffers at all, could pay the higher price(70-80bucks) for a perfectly balanced salt. I am talking only about when the salt has just been mixed with ro/di and before entering any tank. We all know certain tanks will have different loads and consume more of one thing than the other but is it too much to expect to start out with everything needed???? Last edited by schigara; 10/25/2007 at 02:23 AM. |
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Used IO for a long time, switched to Reef Crystals approx 6 months ago.
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It will be interesting to see what AWT comes up with for alk. |
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Reef Crystals is taking it to the house!
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The people who are using "other", what are you using?
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Reef Crystals or Instant Ocean...they seem to get the most consistent results.
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#89
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IO.
Guessing the reef crystals are more potent, but if your adding additives to that, maybe not. |
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I used to use aquatic gardens marine salt, it seems very good, but I have found better deals elsewhere on other salts......
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Heavily stocked tanks use calcium rapidly and if you want to keep your Ca++ at 420ppm or so, you will have to supplement between water changes. Not a problem for most. |
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I just haven't used it long enough so see what the other effects are. If you are using Aquatic Gardens and not having any microalgae problems or elevated PO4, I suspect it is pretty O.K. |
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I'm surprised more people say they us RC over IO.
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Reef Crystals
The batch's that i've pickup have been pretty consistent so far. Reef Crystals also good for the price.
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Its surprising to me b/c instant ocean is more readily available and generally the most popular salt.
I tried RC and I still had to had Ca++ to it to balance out the high alk. Soon we should have more data on how all the different salt brands test: http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1216536
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when your tired of trying the rest... try the best!
http://www.gettankedaquariums.com/ I will never go back to TPM Pro, Or Reef Crystals poke around on this guys site he makes his own salt for his aquaculture business its called saltwater correct |
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interesting.
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When are you expecting the results Doc ?
To answer your ealier question, the Reef Crystals explosion seems to have started within the last year or so. If you would have done this poll a year ago, IO would have ran away. Better pricing and availability seems to have attracted many reefers to RC. |
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