H20 ocean salt is just rebadged Red Sea salt

[BC Mosaic]

Originally Posted by Stuart Bertram D-D

Guy
.......We decided to use a natural base for the salt using evaporated water from a coral sea as this has the benefit of having all of the main and minor trace elements in the correct balance and more importantly they are homogenous throughout the mix.............
Stuart

Hello Stuart,

Please correct me if I'm wrong but isn't evaporated water the same as distilled water which is basically just pure H2O. Can trace elements be suspended/supported by water vapour? I use RO/DI for water changes and distilled water for drinking and cooking (doctors freak over this) and both read 000 TDS.

Thanks

[Stuart Bertram D-D]

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

[RCFA]

Originally Posted by Stuart Bertram D-D

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?

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by RCFA

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.

[BC Mosaic]

Originally Posted by Stuart Bertram D-D

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

Thanks. Makes sense now.

[naesco]

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

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

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.

[Pan]

Originally Posted by GreenSpottedPuffer

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....

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Pan

So it is re-packaged "red sea"

I had to....


Just kidding of course....

LOL...can't argue with that!

Good one

Or maybe...