Salt....

[Murminator]

Red Sea

[justinl]

filtered ocean water. lol, I'm being as natural as possible.

[christyf5]

IO or Kent, whichever is available to me at the time. I do have a preference for kent however (and I missed the bad batches as well).

[BC564]

Ocean Pure Pro...........Used to use Instant ocean...

[Ruth]

Well I tell ya this subject can definately provoke some heated discussion. Personally I will never use Instant Ocean again as I was one of the victims of the bad batch of salt from a few years ago and lost my entire tank and was so discouraged I just about quit.
Today I use Tropic Marin Pro on most of my tanks and Seachem reef salt on another. I am happy with both salts - both mix well, have consistent readings from batch to batch and bucket to bucket.
For a while I was using Formula salt and if I could still find a realiable supply of this salt I would still be using it.

[Doug]

I have used Instant Ocean for many years. I now raise the calcium & magnesium levels when mixing, following Ben,s amounts {which I believe are from Randy,s RC recipe} and using his mag & calcium additives. I did have problems with some of the buckets with higher alkalinity but current ones fine.

I also have some Sea-Chem and like it. Seems like a good salt.

[Chaotic Cricket]

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2005/12/aafeature1

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Ocean Pure Pro. Like someone said, it mixes really well and that goes a long way in my books. Have also used Seachem Reef Salt, which was also good to me.

[mark]

Originally Posted by Chaotic Cricket

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2005/12/aafeature1

interesting read