marines salt

[Jameshong]

^{I have tried many brands such as Oceanic, RedSea Coral Pro, H2O, Tropic Marin Pro Reef Salt , GroTech Coral Marine Reef Salt and Marine Environment Reef Formula before and current one is SKIMZ Pur Reef Marine due to affordability and surprisingly parameter not bad leh!}

^{Few months ago, tested with API and Salifert test kit, I managed to get the following results;}

^{Salinity at 1.025}

^{KH (API) - 9.4}

^{pH (API ) – 8.1}

^{Alkalinity (API) – 9 dKH}

^{Calcium (API) – 390 ppm}

^{Magnesium (Salifert) – 1280 ppm}

^{Phosphate (Salifert) – 0 ppm}

^{Nitrate (Salifert) – 0 ppm}

[Sherilyn91]

How is h2o compared to skimz? Thinking of changing

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[xiggie]

Sorry to ask ... But what's all the fuss about salt brand? What's the difference? If talking about elements like calcium,kh,mag, don't u guys dose those elements?

[Sherilyn91]

Haha I dunno too.. I am using nsw all along till last week

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[asg]

Cos not all salt are the same. Thus some factors to find out before buying:

1) consistency of main para. This batch ca 380, next ca 440, then 400. Not good.

2) present of trace elements. Enhanced level of trace elements which enough to last for a week of coral makan.

Of cos they will be salt that claim they are reef ready but no matter how many chances u give them, salted coral is the only product...

[xiggie]

I would agree with u on this .... Only for someone who has a small tank and only rely on weekly wC for replenishment of elements.

However if someone with a bigger tank doing a 10 or 20% wC ... A 20% water with 400ca will not have a dent on the existing 80% presently 440ca , and further more if that tank is on element dosing or CR.

Even for someone doing daily dose will somehow over or underdose an element (unless they test the water daily before dosing)

Let's put in a make believe case study.

A small marine tank started out with 440ca ,8dkh , by the end of the week due to coral makan .. Ca drop to 380, dkh to 6. He uses a good salt giving 440ca and 8dkh = no good inconsistent param?

So this tank started daily dosing pump keeping param stable , end of the week wC with good salt same param = very good ,

the following week he adds more corals and they Makan more ca still drops 380 dkh 7 . Used good salt = no good inconsistent param?

So my point is .. expensive salt or cheap salt they are still salt ..either way we still have to add those elements.

Ps : my point of view only .. People still buy BMW when a Toyota still get from point A to point B.

[asg]

For discussion purpose, let use tropic marine salt as example. They have three types of salt, normal, pro reef and reef actif. All three has 70 trace elements in them. But ca, kh, ph range are all diff, as intended for diff purpose (FOWLR/softies/ LPS/ SPS). Reef artif salt has carbon source in it to help BB (or somethings like that).

I personally has used instance ocean and tropic marine pro reef. Instance ocean para moves quite a fair bit. As for pro reef, i gave up testing newly mixed saltwater after six times, the reading are like photocopy.

For large established tank, the consumption level wont change a lot, adding one Sps colony into a existing 30 colonies shall not increase the consumption amount by much.

Based on my talking with large tank reefers, most of the time they dose is because adding a few caps of thingy is easier and faster than changing a few pails of water loh.

But theoritically speaking, if you change 3% of water daily with a good salt, you wont need any dosing or any equipments at all...