Fluval Sea salt

Slyguy00 · #1 08-09-2013, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by mseepman

Had a bad problem with the residue from the Fluval salt. Plus floaties looked like GFO floating on top of water. Not sure if it was a bad batch but my storage tank turned black. So much so that Hagen is looking into it for me. IO is filthy but this fluval batch made it look clean.

Well so far nobody has anything good to say about the fluval so really I have no need to use it. I will continue to monitor the bag I have and after that will look into other salts. Why do you say IO is filthy? What are the majority of people using then?

mrhasan · #2 08-09-2013, 07:05 AM

Salinity is a very controversial salt. It works great for some (like in my case) while it worked like the worst possible salt (like in Brad's case). I myself is going to move to H2Ocean (seems like the most stable salt with a nice price being a high end salt) since its parameters are much more stable from buckets to buckets unlike Salinity which has a tremendous deviation between buckets (infact, I exchanged my 2nd bucket for a new one at LFS since the mg was way too low - funny!). IO is possibly the most appreciated salt in this hobby since one way or the other, you will have to dose the tank eventually. I just don't like to dose freshly mixed salt so don't use it. And since I usually get flamed for using "less expensive" products (with "you get what you pay for" motto), I try to give the best salt to my tank - the ONLY important thing for this hobby

Slyguy00 · #3 08-09-2013, 07:08 AM

Awesome thanks Mrhasan!

Aquattro · #4 08-09-2013, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Slyguy00

What are the majority of people using then?

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=89864

Aquattro · #5 08-09-2013, 07:12 AM

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1811210

Slyguy00 · #6 08-09-2013, 08:01 AM

Thats exactly what I was looking for! very informative, thanks!

Simons · #7 08-09-2013, 07:45 PM

I just ran out of IO and dropped $ for a large bucket of Salinity. Makes me wonder after some of the comments I have read here.

Aquattro · #8 08-09-2013, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Simons

I just ran out of IO and dropped $ for a large bucket of Salinity. Makes me wonder after some of the comments I have read here.

Honestly, give it a shot. Enough people report good results, so maybe my LFS got a bad truck load. It can happen. Use half the bucket, come back and report your thoughts on it.