A General Guide to Salt Mixes

[Billybeau1]

Here is a list of what I measured for the big three in a number of the salt mixes we use today. This is intended as a guideline and I, in no way, guarantee these figures. All I can say is they were all tested under the same conditions, with a number of different brand test kits, using the same methods for each test. I believe these numbers are reasonably what you can expect from these salts mixed at 35 ppt or 1.0264

A special thanks to Bertoni for putting it in nice form.

	Calcium &nbsp&nbsp	Alkalinity&nbsp &nbsp	Magnesium
Aquatic Gardens	&nbsp&nbsp 430	&nbsp&nbsp 8	&nbsp&nbsp 1240
CoraLife	&nbsp&nbsp 560	&nbsp&nbsp 9	&nbsp&nbsp 1380
Instant Ocean&nbsp &nbsp	&nbsp&nbsp 350	&nbsp&nbsp 12	&nbsp&nbsp 1070
Kent&nbsp &nbsp	&nbsp&nbsp 540	&nbsp&nbsp 11	&nbsp&nbsp 1200
Oceanic	&nbsp&nbsp 580	&nbsp&nbsp 8.5	&nbsp&nbsp 1650
Red Sea	&nbsp&nbsp 400	&nbsp&nbsp 8	&nbsp&nbsp 1300
Reef Crystals	&nbsp&nbsp 420	&nbsp&nbsp 12	&nbsp&nbsp 1260
SeaChem Reef Salt	&nbsp&nbsp 540	&nbsp&nbsp 10	&nbsp&nbsp 1450
Tropic Marin	&nbsp&nbsp 375	&nbsp&nbsp 10	&nbsp&nbsp 1230
Tropic Marin Pro Reef	&nbsp&nbsp 450	&nbsp&nbsp 8.5	&nbsp&nbsp 1380