110g Mixed Reef V2

[JDigital]

Damn... dkh 5!?!... I need to make a batch and do some testing....

[Delphinus]

I am soooooo done with any of these so-called "premium salts".

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by JDigital

Damn... dkh 5!?!... I need to make a batch and do some testing....

Originally Posted by Delphinus

I am soooooo done with any of these so-called "premium salts".

Well, the way I see things is I will hopefully need to dose less Ca and Mg by running this salt and it is less expensive than KZRB....a win-win for me, methinks. Of course I will make up those costs in test kits

[fishytime]

I picked up a couple more frags...these ones are from the "mac acro sps daddy" hiseff, Greg.

*holds frags up in display fashion with cheese eating grin on face*
a .convexa


rainbow stylophora

[es355lucille]

Nice tank Doug, although I have not seen a recent picture of it. All those beautiful frags must look great in there. And the Clams --> WOW!

Give us a tank shot when you get a min.

[JDigital]

Trying the Stylo again! Nice..

[Delphinus]

Is it really cheaper in the long run though? If there's one lesson I can impart onto anyone from my mistakes, it would be "don't slough off on testing." If a number is important to you, you need to track it. I feel so completely burned on KZRB now, I felt "Well, I don't need to test because I paid more!" .. Yes it is my mistake and I accept responsibility for it .. the point is .. if I have to test anyhow and dose to adjust Ca/Alk/Mg anyhow ..then I might as well take the salt that costs half because the additives I use are paid for by the difference. For real. And they last me way longer than a bucket of salt. I guess there must be different break-even points depending on total volumes, bioloads, water change volumes and frequencies, targetted levels and consumption rates, and the additives one uses. (Wow, that's a lot of variables. Can we work in moon phases into the list too? ).

I dunno, but it just seems to me that everytime I've listened to the hype about a salt, I've been disappointed. A salt is a salt? Can it really be a tipping point (barring "bad" salts or batches or whatever)..

Originally Posted by fishytime

Well, the way I see things is I will hopefully need to dose less Ca and Mg by running this salt and it is less expensive than KZRB....a win-win for me, methinks. Of course I will make up those costs in test kits

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by JDigital

Damn... dkh 5!?!... I need to make a batch and do some testing....

Josh...did you ever test out a batch of new water...Im curious to know what you got?

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by fishytime

Josh...did you ever test out a batch of new water...Im curious to know what you got?

Not yet, but after loosing my CBB, I am gonna make a batch today for a water change.. I'll let you know, I will be into the shop today.

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

FWIW, just tested my first batch of IO since switching back to IO, here's what I got (not that you asked, but I hate testing, and I have to do it anyhow, so I'm going to tell anyone who listens now what #'s I come up with).

SG@1.025, dKH=11, Ca=340, Mg=1110. Interesting that one salt has the Alk and one has the Ca. Maybe a mixture of both is the answer?

Originally Posted by JDigital

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