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| Kent |
   
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25 | 7.27% |
| Instant Ocean |
  
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196 | 56.98% |
| Oceanic |
  
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5 | 1.45% |
| Ocean Pure |
  
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9 | 2.62% |
| Ocean Pure Pro |
  
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29 | 8.43% |
| Tropic Marin |
  
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35 | 10.17% |
| Reef Crystals |
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36 | 10.47% |
| Sifto |
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9 | 2.62% |
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#2
11-01-2008, 08:00 PM
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KZ reefers best works great for me as well.
I've tried Aqua-medic before, but found I had to dose too much. I now don't dose anything.
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11-01-2008, 09:21 PM
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Just switched a couple of months ago from the remainders of my Reef Crystals to KZ Reefers Best . (I was only keeping fish and LR previously)
Way less/no dosing when compared to RC and it was a great price at the time. 
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11-01-2008, 09:40 PM
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11-13-2008, 05:56 PM
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Up until about a year ago I always used IO with good results. For some reason I decided to give a bucket of kent a go and around the same time I also went skimmerless. Soon after, red algae started to show up; sensitive corals died and hardy corals just stopped growing.
Thinking that nutrients were piling up due to the lack of skimmer I jacked up the rate of water changes. The problem got worse fast: carpets of red algae everywhere. Obviously something was in the salt. I bought a bucket of IO and after 4-5 25% water changes over a couple weeks and the tank is finally looking healthy again. So what gives? Pay more for a competitor's product and get crappier quality? If I understand correctly Instant Ocean is a very large company relative to other marine salt makers. Theoretically this gives them economies of scale (e.g. better quality to cost ratio). Not only that but if they are indeed supplying commercial facilities then they are more likely to be concerned about brand reputation and hence devote more resources to quality control. So it is no wonder that the concensus seems to be that to improve on IO reefers have to look at one of the premium brands made by smaller companies, that cost around twice as much. As an aside, IO also has a premium product (Reef Crystals) at a reasonable price point. Given the reliability of IO I would think that this would be a popular choice yet I don't see it stocked at the big stores that I visit in the GVRD. Anyone know why?
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12-27-2008, 07:27 PM
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what salt do you use
hi guys we use the following salts. marine environment scores100% bio sea scores90% coral marine scores72% we try to use salts that are as close to nsw.( natural sea water ) dan
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12-27-2008, 07:55 PM
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I started out innitially using Reef Salt from seachem but switched over to IO recently. For the time being, I've only had to dose calcium and mag...sometimes strontium in my 8 foot tank. Mind you, there aren't many calium hungry corals in that one...mainly softies and mushrooms.
I have been using IO for the 90 that is currently being born and I havn't hade any issues with it as of yet, but we'll have to see once corals/clams etc start making their way into the tank
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