Salt mix comparison

[Zero Oxygen]

Hmmm found this in reefkeeping 2003

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-03/rs/feature/index.htm

It talks about the salt that we use.....

And it seems that coralife, isnt really that good......hmmm i myself have been using coralife since from the start.....

Take a look at the tables in the page, it gives quite a good comparison using the amount of larvae that developed in the different kind of salt mix and sea water.

One of the interesting portion.

<So, the average number of larvae that developed in samples of water made with <Instant Ocean and Coralife salts was highly statistically different, and far lower, <than the number found developing in natural sea water. On the other hand, the <average number found in samples of water made with Crystal Sea Marinemix <Bioassay Formula and Bio-Sea Marinemix salts was not significantly different <from that found developing in natural sea water.

[Achilles Tang]

I've been using Coralife for many years now also... don't see any slowdown in coral growth or microlife.

[Zero Oxygen]

Sometimes the more we read the more confusing things get.

[patrick123]

I highly suspect these reports have commercial interest in them. Read a few reports and all of them report different things.

May be we can just go changi beach and get the sea water ourselves.

[lastmanstanding]

Do you all add water conditioners like chlorine/chloramine remover when mixing salt water?

thanks