What salt do you use?

[StevenSeas]

thanks for the imput thus far. Anybody use the brightwells new salt?

[txg8gxp]

I like the brightwell...No true data, but every stayed happy and it disolves better the salinity.

[StevenSeas]

thanks I was hoping you would weigh in... knew you were using it. How long have you been using it for?

[txg8gxp]

I used it for about 3 months, now Im useing salinity. I need to do some good tests on both(but my test kits suck, need new ones), but so far I like the brightwell neomarine better.( I dont like the big crystals in the salinity) I think before I choice a salt I will try the esv b-ionic first, I'm very excited about this new salt.

[acropoorer]

Didn't see any coralife salt users, that's what I use. Used to use tropic marin except I noticed algae blooms on my glass right after every water change. Measured the fresh change for phospates and found that they were slightly above .045 mg/l. I run rowa to keep around .03 mg/l or less. So, did some research and found most of the parameters I valued were in the sweet spot and I get pricing of $30 per 150gal bucket (near 0 on phosphates). The other thing I like about coralife is the bucket has three 50 gal bags. If you take a 44 gal brut trash can on wheels and fill it near the top, one bag yields 35 pp thousand salinity. No measuring, checking, measuring, checking, just dump and go. So... half the price of Tropic Marin, 0 phosphates, easy to measure, whats not to like.

[StevenSeas]

thanks acropoorer I was looking at Coralife salt today and was debating about it. looked like it had potential to be a good salt, was just unsure thanks

[Randy@pollyspets]

I use Oceanic in my tanks...as you probably know Steven! Did you know that Dallas World Aquarium uses Instant Ocean as their salt! Thought that was crazy! Guess it's not always the salt...but what you do with it!

[Gseclipse02]

Didn't see any coralife salt users, that's what I use. Used to use tropic marin except I noticed algae blooms on my glass right after every water change. Measured the fresh change for phospates and found that they were slightly above .045 mg/l. I run rowa to keep around .03 mg/l or less. So, did some research and found most of the parameters I valued were in the sweet spot and I get pricing of $30 per 150gal bucket (near 0 on phosphates). The other thing I like about coralife is the bucket has three 50 gal bags. If you take a 44 gal brut trash can on wheels and fill it near the top, one bag yields 35 pp thousand salinity. No measuring, checking, measuring, checking, just dump and go. So... half the price of Tropic Marin, 0 phosphates, easy to measure, whats not to like.

very interesting ...


i use reefcrystals ...i tried IO, kent.coralife and redsea pro and i had noticed with reefcrystals i had better growth with my zoa's /palys..... i dont add anything else to my tank and this seems to do well for every thing my calc is normally 400-420

[BIGBIRD123]

That's the only think I don't likje about all the RC I have bought in the last yr, is the calcium to me is low, near the 400 range but the mag is 1300. I may have to try the Coralife, if the Acro-grows-like-a-weed guy says he uses it...lol

[Gseclipse02]

That's the only think I don't likje about all the RC I have bought in the last yr, is the calcium to me is low, near the 400 range but the mag is 1300. I may have to try the Coralife, if the Acro-grows-like-a-weed guy says he uses it...lol

i was thinking the same thing but its kind of hard to see how well it really works since he is dosing different elements

side note jason swears by this stuff i was thinking of trying it again but dont want to jump boats yet