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  1. 1. Which brand of salt you all use most???

    • 1)Red Sea
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    • 2)Tropic Marin
      65
    • 3)Coralife
      42
    • 4)The Little Bottle
      29
    • 5)Reef Crystals
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Hi jus wan check it out which brand is very popular among marine hobbyist.

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i have use tropic marin for quite some time...must say that the results is very good.. :D

i have tried coralife and zoomix....zoomix can be comparable to TM.....coralife is high in calcium and provide lots of coralines algae... :D

view my 2ft tank thread update here!!

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Tank Dimension: 24'x15'x19' with black silicon. All round 8mm.

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Return Pump : Hailea HX6540

Skimmer/Chiller : Sicce 2500lph

Skimmer : Weipro 2011

Lightings: 4xT5s HO..2 20,000k & 2 Blue Pro(Aquaz) Retrofits

Chiller : Resun CL280

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Green Bubble, Orange Yuma, Hammer, True Octopus, Acans,

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What's the 4) THE LITTLE BOTTLE? If you were referring to Marine Environment... that's the salt I've been using since day #1 :)

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actually, i have tried to mix zoomix and coralife salt together with the proportion if 80%-20%.....must say that due to the high levels of calcium and magnesium from the coralife salt, it really boost up the coralines algae alot...

but if coralife alone, i find that the calcium is too high to sustain softies such as f.ric...the last time i test the calcium with TM testkits, it was 480ppm...

these are just my own opinion....maybe other coralife users can testify against the calcium issue... :D :

view my 2ft tank thread update here!!

http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=36399

Tank Dimension: 24'x15'x19' with black silicon. All round 8mm.

Equipments:

Return Pump : Hailea HX6540

Skimmer/Chiller : Sicce 2500lph

Skimmer : Weipro 2011

Lightings: 4xT5s HO..2 20,000k & 2 Blue Pro(Aquaz) Retrofits

Chiller : Resun CL280

Auto Water Top Up

Life Stock:

More then 35kg of figi rocks

Blue Tang, Powder Blue Tang, Bristletooth tang, Clown Tang, Yellow Tang, Purple Tang, Flame Angel, Six Line Wrasse, Sunrise Dottyback. 2 Cleaner Shrimp

Green Bubble, Orange Yuma, Hammer, True Octopus, Acans,

Frogspawn, Green/Orange Cyannaria, Red Prata, Red Open Brain, Star Polyp, Acan Enchinata

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Why no Oceanic?

I have using it since mid of 2005, High Ca & Mg. IMHO, good for SPS or LPS tank :evil: .

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sorry ah i forgot some other brands.This are the ones that i saw mostly sold in shops.The little bottle is salt mix.I saw it over at aquamarin.Wow a lot of people like to use Tropic Marine.Wrong spelling liao.I use Red Sea i jus wan test out.

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What's the 4) THE LITTLE BOTTLE? If you were referring to Marine Environment... that's the salt I've been using since day #1 :)

thats the one.

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Why no Oceanic?

I have using it since mid of 2005, High Ca & Mg. IMHO, good for SPS or LPS tank :evil: .

Oceanic? Read from RC not very positive tho. Algae bloom due to high content of Po4. I use Tm and ME on and off. result similar but ME cheaper. :P

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haiya just buy salt that is No phosphates and No Nitrates easier.

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Oceanic? Read from RC not very positive tho. Algae bloom due to high content of Po4. I use Tm and ME on and off. result similar but ME cheaper. :P

No problem for me since 2005 till now :angel: . But hor the con side is too Ex...so I may change to RedSea Coral Pro Salt soon :rolleyes: .

It's better than RedSea salt(normal) as the CA, Mg, KH, PH is excellence with No phosphates and No Nitrates found :lol: ! Price is reasonable :bow: !

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No problem for me since 2005 till now :angel: . But hor the con side is too Ex...so I may change to RedSea Coral Pro Salt soon :rolleyes: .

It's better than RedSea salt(normal) as the CA, Mg, KH, PH is excellence with No phosphates and No Nitrates found :lol: ! Price is reasonable :bow: !

Should say red sea salt is quite good but the con side hard to dissolve.

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Should say red sea salt is quite good but the con side hard to dissolve.

Nope...not RedSea Coral Pro salt :evil: .

Wat you referred are Redsea salt (Normal) :whistle !

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Nope...not RedSea Coral Pro salt :evil: .

Wat you referred are Redsea salt (Normal) :whistle !

What i mean the coral pro salt. :paiseh:

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I'm going for ME, cos tried Red Sea salt but it have low MG and calcium.

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Anyone ever tried using this brand of salt called BioMarine? Its almost the same price as Red Sea but kinda hard to find.

So far I used it and its harder to dissolve than Red Sea, and also leaves white ppt on the surface of the water when mixing. But after using it, I realised that my coraline algae really bloomed like nobody's business. But then again I've only tried these 2 brands, so don't know if Marine Environment have a much greater effect.

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After many years of using Oceanic, I start to switch to RedSea Coral Pro Salt since last year Octobe. The parameter is very reasonable.. Mg 1450~1480 and CA 450 ~50 at sg 1.025.

Please dun make up with Redsea salt hor...It's RedSea Coral Pro salt :eyebrow: !

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After many years of using Oceanic, I start to switch to RedSea Coral Pro Salt since last year Octobe. The parameter is very reasonable.. Mg 1450~1480 and CA 450 ~50 at sg 1.025.

Please dun make up with Redsea salt hor...It's RedSea Coral Pro salt :eyebrow: !

Same here. Using Red Sea Pro.

Before that was using coralife. Also good. The only thing I don't like is that is become hard after a while.

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Woah should try red sea coral pro.Wow long time i nvr went into forums.Now my tank is doing pretty bad cos the tank nearly crashed wif 5 fish died in one shot.Why???Circulating pump dun work.Survivors left Henry's extroadinary fishes which i duno how it survived and my 2 old and trusty bubble corals.

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