Choosing Salt Mix

[Sea Witch]

Which salt mix do you folks recommend and why?

thanks

[Madreefer]

Instant Ocean because it's cheap and the only salt available in my town. My tank is a mixed reef. It works for me.

[TheMikey]

Depends on what's available near me, like Madreefer. I run a nano tank and my LFS only sells salt by the giant $100 buckets which would probably expire by the time I got through half of it. So I go to a dept. pet store and I've used a variety: Instant Ocean, Red Sea Pro, something endorsed by ORA in a silver bag, and right now I'm on Reef Crystals.

[whatcaneyedo]

40% of people on this forum chose Instant Ocean in this poll
Reef Salt Brand
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...highlight=salt
57% chose Instant Ocean in this older poll
What salt do you use?
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...highlight=salt

[fishytime]

just pick one........seriously......you will get all kinds of "this salt is good because of this" and "that salt is bad because I had this problem when I used it"(which 90% of the time, probably had nothing to do with the salt).......FWIW, I use H2Ocean because I like the idea that it is a naturally evaporated salt, not a synthetic.....whether thats a good thing or not, I dont know, but the idea appeals to me

[cathyg_99]

i know some people say the higher brand of salts are better for SPS but if your just staring out or have a mixed reef Instant ocean should be fine, thats all ive used since the start and ive got fantastic growth for 4 months