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View Poll Results: What's your favourite aquarium salt mix? | |||
Instant Ocean | 154 | 33.70% | |
Instant Ocean: Reef Crystals | 104 | 22.76% | |
H2Ocean Coral Pro | 75 | 16.41% | |
Zeovit Reefers Best Salt | 23 | 5.03% | |
Brightwell Aquatics NeoMarine | 8 | 1.75% | |
Red Sea Coral Pro Salt | 19 | 4.16% | |
Seachem Reef Salt | 25 | 5.47% | |
other (please share in post ) | 49 | 10.72% | |
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I agree
Started with IO works well for me and cheap to buy as well.
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Hey! I never "LEFT" the hobby, just doing fresh water now. Which is still listed as part of Canreef if I'm not mistaken. |
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I use the Zeovit salt, its mixes well and my LFS won't let me buy anything else
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Zeovit here also only complaint I have with it is at times it could be hard to find so I always buy 10 boxes when I find it. Been using it for 4-5 years only problems u had was when I couldn't get it and tried royal nature salt. I used to use h2 ocean but found the kh so low on it that the cost to bring it up it was same price as reefers best.
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360 gallon sps reef, 180 gal sump, bubble king supermarine 300, 4xmp40Wes, 2 x 6215 tunze waveboxes, 4 ghl mitras 360 Reef Tank |
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Used IO with my old tank, and got a full bucket of Kent with my current setup and so far everything has been stellar. The pH is a bit lower, but everything is super happy (tough to say how much the salt is a contibutor unfortunately). It certainly hasn't caused problems though. I'm not sure where I'm going to get more of it... I guess I'll have to switch to something else after.
IO was okay, pretty standard stuff. |
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Reefers best here. Just gotta buy a few at a time cause it's sometimes hard to get.
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Love the Reefer's best. Mixes clear and with consistent results. Tough to get unless you live on the coast.
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Mark... 290g Peninsula Display, 425g total volume. Setup Jan 2013. |
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Switched a couple mos ago from dd h20 to Salinity brand from seachem. So far, everything is good.
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Last tank was 210 reef with 90 gal sump 120 , lps. 2xKessil A350W Tuna Blues, 2xvortech mp40 for flow,aqualogic 1/4 hp chiller, 160 lbs live rock. sohal, , pair of percs,flame dotty back , royal gramma, pair of black percs, niger trigger, mandarin 55 corner bowfront freshwater, African cichlids kessil a350 30 gal 36x36 coffee table fish tank. 3 red ear sliders. 5.5 gal nano, live rock, arrow crab, baby perc, firefish. |
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Been using salinity for a while but found it doesn't mix as clear as reefer best
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Salinity.
I like that it takes less volume of salt to reach my target ppt in a 5 gallon bucket, good solubility, and my sps are showing noticeable growth. No experimental design deployed, just anecdotal. Yeah, it's a bit cloudy after a w/c but clears up within an hour or so. I don't bother to pre-dissolve hours before. I also like the buckets/lids they come in... does that count? |
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I prefer H2Ocean for my reef tanks, but I prefer IO for my fish only tanks. By your post I'm assuming you are asking which is the preferred salt for reef tanks, so I voted for H2Ocean.
I like H2Ocean for reef tanks because I only have to add magnesium and potassium, plus I prefer the lower (than IO) alkalinity so I can keep the alkalinity below 8 dKH in my reefs. It also mixes up much cleaner than IO which leaves a brown residue on the sides of the mixing barrel. I like IO for fish only tanks because of the higher alkalinity and the cost. Last edited by Myka; 09-19-2012 at 02:07 AM. |
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salt, salt mix, water change |
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