Salt mix poll

[illal]

lucky for me i live in south florida so natural sea water all the way

[DrBegalke]

illal: please read the thread on the analysis project, we are looking for a good source of NSW

[Jaguar32]

I had been using Seachem Reef salt and had good stable parameters. There was some hype about Red Sea Pro salt so I bought some and tried it. I have been fighting with stability ever since I changed. I think when this Red Sea Pro runs out I will switch back to Seachem Reef salt.

[Craig Lambert]

I used IO for years and recently switched to RC and am very happy with it.

[CruzinKim]

IO for fish only (almost 20 years) and RC with additives for mixed reef.

[melev]

[AirManFL]

I use Tropic Marin Pro. Why?
1. Marcey at Sea in the City of Orlando, FL told me it was good.
2. I'm a newb and I need all the pro I can get.

Rob

[MarineFishGuy]

I use IO because it is very consistent based on my experience and readily available in my area.
I already supplement Kalk because WC alone would not add enough ALK or CA for a healthy reef. Almost All of the other parameters in IO were comparable to other salts based on this study a few years ago.

Feature Article: Inland Reef Aquaria Salt Study, Part I
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2005/11/aafeature1

Feature Article: Inland Reef Aquaria Salt Study Part II
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2005/12/aafeature1

(Thanks jdieck for posting these links in the lab analysis thread)

The important thing I took away from reading the articles is that no single salt stood out as being superior to all of the others.
In other words they all excelled in some areas and were deficient in others.

IMO using the same salt is more important as the proportions in the environment will be better maintained and cause less stress on the inhabitants due to fluctuations.

Ken

PS Go Bucks!

[DrBegalke]

I agree, GO BUCKS

[Reefer Steve]

Marine Environment dual phase formula!

[DrBegalke]

Reefer Steve: Where do you get that dual phase formula from?

[melev]

[fishdoc11]

IO or Reef Crystals.

I have been using IO for years with great results. I just recently started using Reef Crystals because our club did a group buy and seem to be getting good results from it as well.


And yes IO is a great salt for reef tanks as is evidenced by the multitude of successfull reef tanks that use it......and some very sucessful tanks do I have never added anything to the IO I use for water changes. If your running a reef you are adding Ca with another method anyway.

Chris

[DrBegalke]

Originally posted by melev

Yup, .

[DrBegalke]

bump

[champscorner]

i started out using red sea coral pro(first 2 buckets)but it always got a nasty brownish biuld up so i switched to rc and no more build up.

[acrylic_300]

I did use IO...but just changed to RC. I love the smell of Reef Crystals.

A while back I was complaining to my LFS about a fish that had died soon after acclimation. They handed me a Georgia Aquarium/ IO T-Shirt. My fish that died only cost $11.50

It's a really cool shirt because it has a picture of Ralph and Norton on the back (two whale sharks[dead now]). IO was using it for an add before they died so it has to be a limited edition shirt. The pet store owner thought it had Nemo on the back and it had not been taken out of the plastic bag yet. Says Instant Ocean Ralph and Norton swim in it too!

If it's good enough for the worlds largest aquarium it's good enough for me.

I don't think it killed Ralph and Norton.

[fishdoc11]

No that's not what killed Ralph and Norton

[CoralReepher]

Originally posted by oct2274
True, it will definitely show new reefers that don't know better that IO is not a good choice unless they like supplementing or mixing with another salt. My main purpose of coming in here is because a poll like this will mislead new reefers. If i was new and wondering which salt to use I would choose IO or Reef Crystals because that is what the most people use, not knowing any better.

I was about to order 160G of I/O before reading the rest of this thread. Figured if that many people use, it must be best
Thanks for the heads up. I'll do some actual research before deciding.



Noob out!

[melev]

True, it will definitely show new reefers that don't know better that IO is not a good choice unless they like supplementing or mixing with another salt. My main purpose of coming in here is because a poll like this will mislead new reefers. If i was new and wondering which salt to use I would choose IO or Reef Crystals because that is what the most people use, not knowing any better.

But that isn't the reason this poll was started. Rather, the goal was to find out which salts are being used by the most people, so that those salts could be tested.

The original poster made a comment in a different thread stating that he didn't believe that anyone was using Red Sea Pro, but the poll has shown that isn't the case. I know a lot of people using it, including myself.

[Larry Waughon]

I started with oceanic and switched to Tropic Marin Sea Salt. I have been very happy with it.

[Serioussnaps]

One week 7 gallons of Tropic marin pro reef only

next week 8 gallons of tmproreef/IO 50/50

Why, because I have getting rid of my old buckets of IO because it sucks for SPS. Alk is way to high, ca is way to low, mg is too low...that equals not a good salt.

[DrBegalke]

is pro reef high in Ca/Mag?

[melev]

Originally posted by DrBegalke
is pro reef high in Ca/Mag?

High enough for me. I posted my findings with two different buckets in the past 60 days. I remember in the latest batch, Calcium was 450 and Mg was 1380. pH was 8.2, alk was 9.7 or 10 dKH. I'd have to find my post to get those numbers for you.

[EvilE]

IO/Oceanic mix 50/50