A Poll On The Brand Of Salt Mix Used

[zephyros]

Hi,

Like to conduct a poll on the brand of salt mix use here

by our local hobbyists

comments on why you chose this brand (as opposed to other brands)

will be of much help

Zephyros

[mAriNe_enthusiast]

I use Redsea salt...

Not too X and reasonably good.

[Nickel]

I used Redsea Salt. Cheap, soluble, and clean water.

[zephyros]

after reading so much in other (overseas) fourm, it seems like

US hobbyists favour Instant Ocean. Is IO selling in our local LFS?

Zephyros

[seamonkee]

I use Red Sea.... cheap and good

[GATECRASHER]

Only INSTANT OCEAN for me!!!!!!!!!! I swear by it. HEck I've never tried any other brands either hehehe

[roidan]

coralife salt for me

[Mellow]

clementi sells IO..can go look there...they have the small boxes and those large bags kind... hey roidan, i think coral life seemed to draw some not that good reviews apparently...

[Volitan]

coralife salt for me

Me too. Cheap salt.

[Achilles Tang]

I use Coralife all these years and have not experienced anything bad about it.

Tried tropic marine and red sea salt before.

Tropic Marine seems to dissolve easiest and red sea the hardest. Coralife is somewhere in between. Perhaps the batch age can be a factor too, or bad packing.

[Fireclown]

Yeah! Coralife. The old packaging of coralife used to have this small pack of Traces of Elements. What happened to it?

[Mellow]

heard the Ca content in coral life very high. this guy apparently had 520ppm Ca without any Ca additives....

[dradttg]

I am using Tropic Marine. I paid $35 for 6.2 kg.

Is it usual to have to use 36 plastic spoon (the one that comes with packet rice) to bring 15 litres of water to 1.021?

Please comment on your usage of the other brands. ie how much salt ? how many litres? etc.

Thanks.

[junyong84]

i used b4 alot of no brands...kent marine... instant ocean...

i can't see the diff...

juz that those no brands...can't dissolve much..

would like to try marine environment soon...

[Fishy Clown]

Haha I am using coral life seasalt

[Golden Tooth]

Yeah! Coralife. The old packaging of coralife used to have this small pack of Traces of Elements. What happened to it?

Me Coralife too. Still got that small pack in it.

[Cookiemunster]

I'm using tropic marine. Damn expensive. And needed so much!!!!

I think it is less concentrated somehow. Thats why need more to get the ideal sg. Perhaps also this is the reason why it dissolves easier.

But I am now beginning to think salt makes no god damn difference. As long as its marine salt get the cheapest of the lot. Taiwan brands even.

To me it makes no difference cos I still does all the trace elements and calcium and carbonates too.

Any comments on this?

[sherman]

Me use many brand b4.Not really so much different.

Now using Topic Marine.

Regards

[Mellow]

Hi,

Just my 2 cents worth..i think u will need some time(years maybe) to actually see the effects of a good and a lower grade salt. It's more of a long term result that u'll see by using higher quality salts...so if we change to a new brand of salt after we finish an old one, doubt u'll see much difference....

[regularguy]

Is it usual to have to use 36 plastic spoon (the one that comes with packet rice) to bring 15 litres of water to 1.021?

wow! that's a difficult question to answer

anyway i use coralife

[FuEl]

I use coralife too! Used to use red sea salt...but then could'nt stand the heat it generated...so off it went...MUAahHAHaa...

[PornStar]

Used to use IO....not too bad IMO.

But changed to Coralife now...just bought a huge a$$ bucket....economies of scale...

[tidur]

using coralife.. the water very murky when fresh mix.. but will clear after few days. tried kent salt.. better than coralife.. but more ex also...

[metals99]

heard from ppl and lfs.. also through the research.. coralife salt s**ks..

i use red sea though.. but now marine environment the best...

[Tanzy]

I've used Coralife, IO, Reef Crystals and Tropic M. Not much difference with respect to the response from the tank inhabitants.

Salts that I will never use are Red Sea and ME.

ME is great for tanks that are new and just starting out but it's not advisable to switch to ME if you have been using conventional salts.