Absolutely not totally different, for starters there are 4 parts to this and the salts used a extremely pure
if you use road way salt expect to get this in your tank.
Would you risk the bucket on the left in your tank?
With the Fauna Balling salts they are gurarranteed pure, no bromine added, no ammonia no heavy metals, you get exactly what you tank requires, not bad deposits. There are so many stories of browned out tanks when trying to do things cheaply, we all love bargains but at what risk.
Here is faunas own statment
Dear Reefers
Many people ask us about our Balling light System and why we developed it. Also what is the difference to the classical Balling System and the well known 2 Part System with the use of DIY Salts.
Reef tanks need a stable chemical base and in the last years the kind of reef tanks chanced with low grade salts are well lit and strong current tanks with a wide variety of SPS and LPS Corals, this is an expensive chance to try and save on cheap salts.
The Classic Balling Method was developed 20 years ago where the sea salts used were not good quality and the reef tanks were mainly with fish and soft corals, much has changed since then. Fauna Marin therefore searched for new very clean salts and other mixes to increase the growth and stability of the modern reef tanks with SPS and LPS Corals
Reefers ask why our salts are more expensive and why should we pay such prices when we can source cheaper. I hope this demonstration provides the reason why (see above photo). Like you see here impure salts included a lot of industrial trace elements, Ammonia or other chemicals produce brown corals, or at best little colour and worst pests like Cyano bacteria.
FM salts are free from anything that can give such results as shown here and are produced with the exact trace elements required for success with SPS and LPS Corals. The Balling light salts have less Crystal water and a higher purity then other salts on the market so you need less of them to get stable results and a stable PH Level.
Together with the ULTRA TRACE B Elements you will get the best coral growth possible
And that’s without any Calcium reactor