I perhaps was not completely clear. If you evaparate the water from salt water from the coral reef you are left with the dried salt.

Cheers

Stuart

So then are you saying that your salt is produced by evaporating saltwater and packaging the salt? I'm sure there are other steps involved, but essentialy this is the base of your salt?

Yes this is basically how the salt is made (I would assume Ca and Mg among other elements are supplemented). That is the reason its called Natural Sea Salt instead of synthetic. If you go to the D-D site its explained.

This part was never a unclear. Rumors were just started about the salt being the exact same as the Red Sea product but they were never based on any fact, just people speculating based on packaging and...not really sure what else.

Thanks. Makes sense now.

Stuart, very informative.
What is the country of manufacture?

On the bucket is says "Made in Israel"

I would guess WAY down in that little area of the south that touches the Red Sea. Would make sense...more salt per gallon of water ;)

If I remember correctly the salinity is high in the Red Sea because it has some of the highest average surface temps of any ocean and come of the least amounts of rain in the area, leading to lots of evaporation and not much fresh water.

So it is re-packaged "red sea" :)

I had to....


Just kidding of course....

LOL...can't argue with that!

Good one :yield:

Or maybe... :israel:

Salt
 

As some who has followed the development of salt mixes over the years we allmust understand something.

Salt used for aquarium is generally just the base scientific grade sodium chloride and a additional trace mineral mix with everything we need for aquariums.

One of the largest reclaimer of trace minerals from salt occurs in the dead sea region in Israel where they extract everything from cobalt to gold from the dried brine.

Lots of aquarium salt manufactures buy their trace element mixes form this large operation in Israel hence dd saying that salt comes from an evaporation based processes.

Whether or not who is combining the salt mix, lots of companies use the trace element mix sourced from the dead sea operations. There is lots of information about over on the zeo forums.

Sorry for the long winded answer but a friend of mine is an engineer at this project and you would be surprised how many salt "manufactures" use their products.

Ryan L

Thanks Ryan...makes even more sense.

I had forgot about the dead sea :) I was just thinking oceans boardering Israel and not lakes.

So I guess they could just collect salt from the shores in that case ;)

Isn't the salt built up a few miles deep now as the lake continues to evaporate?

I think scientists have figured out how many more thousands of years the lake would be around until its just a huge salt deposit.