Gauging interest in magnesium chloride, Bulk order

[MikeDeL]

I use only Epsom salt.

Gary

You dont buy any supplements packaged for aquarium use do you Gary? It is amazing the huge make up they put on something just for sticking it in a bottle with a picture of a fish on it. :o

[falcam7]

Bryan,

I am still in. :-D

Thanks to everyone else for thier input.

Another question to the group what is Kent Tech M?

Isn't it the same thing

[captexas]

It's one of those things, just because someone makes it, doesn't mean you need it. Kent and the other companies make additives for just about everything possible. Any decent salt mix will have enough levels of these elements/compounds to keep your tank happy other than calcium/alkalinity levels. That of course depends on how much is being used up by the corals in your tank.

[::pete::]

I use only Epsom salt.

Gary

Is that why you sit with your feet in the tank :-D !!

[GaryP]

Mag M is basically what Richard said, a mixture of Mag Chloride and Sulfate. Of course the biggest difference is that its 99% RO water. I know where I can get RO a bit cheaper than from Kent. I believe its Kent or one of the others that makes a dry Mag mixture. I used it before I started using Epsom. I always tried to use the dry stuff so I wasn't paying shipping, markup, and containers for water.

I sometimes add a little Iodine and Coral Accel to my tanks. That's about the only additives I buy and I probably won't be buying any more Coral Accel when I use up my 64 oz. bottle. If I could get iodine crystals I would make my own Lugol's. I have some Potassium Iodide.

Richard also has gotten me started using potassium permanganate from Kent. Its an oxidizer. It basically does something similar to ozone and acts as a manganese supplement as a side benefit. Its not something you should be using if you don't know what you are doing. Its pretty nasty stuff. The big advantage is that it helps break up detritus and lower TOC. My suspicion it that it can also increase the performance of a skimmer but I don't have any proof of that. I know that ozone does.

Gary

[falcam7]

Bryan,

I guess no one else intrested but you and me.

Only, if we can buy one bag at $54.45 and split it between 4 or 5 people
Is anybody out there using Kent Tech M? This stuff is the same thing.