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08-11-2008, 02:55 AM
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Seachem Reefsalt Review
What's the consensus about this salt?
I've been using Kent salt in my SPS dominated tank but I'm finding when freshly mixed the parameters in my mixing container are: Ca up to around 500 and Alk down around 5-6dKH after I get the ridiculous amount of precipitate I've become accustomed to with freshly mixed Kent salt. I'm hoping that Seachem Reefsalt will keep me around 450mg/L for Ca and 8-9dKH for Alk. And perhaps of equal importance, I'm hoping Seachem Reefsalt will mix cleanly without a bunch of precipitate. What has everyone's experience with Seachem Reefsalt been?
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08-11-2008, 03:56 AM
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havnt tested for a while but i think with reefsalt and oceanpure pro ive had good calcium and magnesium but low alk in both.
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08-11-2008, 04:13 AM
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i recently changed to it from IO and used a whole bucket. i have lost about 8 full size sps colonies and a handful of smaller colonies. and of course they were all the expensive ones that died first. so in my opinion it is no good
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08-11-2008, 04:20 AM
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The first time I tried it I wasn't impressed. Apparently it has quite a bit of borate in it which throws off your alkalinity readings (apparently it raises your test kit reading by 1dkH) and I dunno, but it didn't do the greatest thing for my tank, not to the extent of Colins tank though but my corals weren't happy and neither was I. In an emergency a couple of months ago I had to pick up a bucket of it as nothing else was available. It was fine for the waterchange I needed to do but after that IO became available and I ended up mixing the two together to offset each other and am now down to just the IO. I would certainly never use it on its own again and hopefully will be trying some Tropic Marin Pro soon.
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08-11-2008, 11:55 AM
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I seem to remember seeing a thread on RC about the borate problem, and that was susposed to be resolved.
I used the salt, and I am happy with it. Dont have to supplement the water before adding to the tank which is nice.
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08-11-2008, 02:17 PM
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08-11-2008, 04:16 AM
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very happy with sc reef salt, i switched over from kent a few months back. my calcium was alright, but as mentioned alkalinity was always low and had to be buffered constantly with kent. i believe my alk back then hovered around 6-8 dKH and calcium around 380. last time i checked with reef salt (with regular calcium+alk buffer of course) i'm stuck at 460 calcium and 8-9 alk. i've heard from alot of ppl that kent salt is starting to go down hill so i decided to give reef salt a try and am pretty happy so far, hope that helps
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