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View Poll Results: What's your favourite aquarium salt mix?
Instant Ocean 154 33.62%
Instant Ocean: Reef Crystals 105 22.93%
H2Ocean Coral Pro 75 16.38%
Zeovit Reefers Best Salt 23 5.02%
Brightwell Aquatics NeoMarine 8 1.75%
Red Sea Coral Pro Salt 19 4.15%
Seachem Reef Salt 25 5.46%
other (please share in post ) 49 10.70%
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Old 06-25-2013, 12:47 AM
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And the Aquavitro response:
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An alkalinity of 9/10 dKH and a magnesium of 1400 mg/L are within specification. A calcium of 590 is not. I checked the certified lab results and they show a calcium of 436. Have you double-checked the calcium concentration with another method or maybe you could have someone else test it for you?

I suggest not using a heater and don't mix it too long to avoid excess cloudiness. If you are using a large powerhead this will also cause precipitation. Mixing too long or mixing too hard (as with a large powerhead) will introduce excess CO2 which causes precipitation of carbonates. Elevated temperatures will reduce the solubility of calcium carbonate also creating precipitation.

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Old 06-25-2013, 12:57 AM
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Yeah. When I contacted them I'm sure I got a temp or summer student who was only in office from there break of cutting grass.

Though I will say I again have a bucket as lfs only had salinity. Io. And fluvāl. Which also has high CA.


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I used IO for the longest time, tried some red sea salt didn't care, tried tropic Marin and now went back to IO Reef Crystals. I like it but now where I can find it in Manitoba. might have to go back to IO
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