Crystal Sea Bio-Assay - Page 4

Buccaneer · #31 05-16-2003, 03:39 AM

Those that report algae loss are not losing ALL algae just the nuisance algae ... coralline is thriving as well as macro algae

Cheers

Aquattro · #32 05-16-2003, 03:42 AM

maybe I should get some of this stuff to rid my tank of wafer algae!!!

Buccaneer · #33 05-16-2003, 03:42 AM

EmilyB · #34 05-16-2003, 03:53 AM

You guys are so funny...

Samw · #35 06-02-2003, 12:02 AM

Some serious hobbiests are starting to switch I think.

This thread is 19 pages long so I'll just snip the quote over. Hope she doesn't mind.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...&pagenumber=18

Quote:

Originally posted by Flame*Angel
I started out by hooking up my auto top off to my bucket of Crystal Seas salt water and gradually added five gallons over a couple days. That was about a week ago. I didn't see any signs of trouble so today I did an actual water change with it. I changed approximately 20 gallons. That was at noon, about 8 hours ago.

As I was writing this I looked over at the tank and saw something cloudy. My big diadema urchin, Spike, just spawned several cloudy spurts. Cool.

Anyway, no signs of problems yet. I'm going to make the switch. I found the salt very well packaged (3 sealed bags in the bucket), of a very fine, dry consistency and no more difficult to mix up than IO. I didn't see any of the cloudiness I've read about. Maybe it could be my mixing technique? I always make my RO/DI water in a Rubbermaid Brute garbage can with a heater, a MaxiJet 1200 powerhead or two and a tube connected to an air pump.

Aquattro · #36 06-02-2003, 12:12 AM

I'm also mixing this right now and I DO see the cloudiness. My RO/DI goes into a 20g rubbermaid garbage can with a heater and a powerhead. It has been cloudy for 12 hours now.
An urchin spawning can signal a stressor in the water. It does not mean that suddenly something is better.
I will be adding this to my tank shortly...wish me luck!!

Samw · #37 06-02-2003, 12:30 AM

Good luck Brad. Oh yeah, my change water in the bucket stayed cloudy even after mixing overnight. I use carbon in the main tank so the cloudiness goes away quite fast maybe because of that. I don't know how long the cloudiness will stay in your tank because I don't think you run carbon. A lot of people (including Sumpinfishe) reported bleaching of their Pocillipora as you might have read. Mine otoh didn't bleach. But you can keep an eye on yours. I'm out of IO now so its only CS that goes in my tank now.

Mak · #38 06-02-2003, 07:03 AM

Hey Sam, I just came across this thread. Regarding your Mysid shrimp population, I really doubt it was the salt mix. I had almost positively no Mysids in my 77g, so I sucked up 9 or 10 of them from my 57g system and added them to the refugium of the 77g. When I took down the fuge before moving (which was about two months after putting in the Mysids), the population has literally BOOMED in there. I think your Mysid boom was just a coincidence. Oh yeah I use IO of course.

Just my 2 Rupi's worth!

Hey cool!!! we got some new CORNY smiley guys

Aquattro · #39 06-02-2003, 07:39 AM

Well, I added 5 gallons of the MEI salt tonight. Nothing has bleached and no urchin babies running around

Mak · #40 06-02-2003, 07:54 AM

Just for curiousity, where are you guys getting this Salt and how much???