2023, what salt mix do you use?

[garyd12503]

I used Instant Ocean for my fish only. I remember it being dirty. I use Red Sea Pro for my reef, I've only been at the reef For 6months. I watched a BRS video last year when doing research for my new tank, and they said Red Sea pro was good.

 

[Dburr1014]

UG, not another "what salt should I use" thread.
Pretty much going to get every manufacture in the business and you'll be even more confused.

 

[Trizz]

NYOS PURE, best salt mix that I've used so far.

 

[jsker]

Aquaforest reef salt for seven years and now Aquforest Hybrid pro for the past two months. Mixes clear in minutes I run my alk low and more Coraline grows very fast.

 

[Petcrazyson]

I use the RedSea Coral Pro

 

[Janet Belanger]

I use the RedSea Coral Pro

+1

 

[Azael]

I use Red Sea and Red Sea Coral Pro.
But I am thinking to try something new in a while.

 

[Tha Reefer]

Red sea coral pro salt. Its about $90 for the 200 gallon bag.

Red sea the blue bucket is 80$ and used by some of my favorite coral farmers.

I bought a used tank and currently using instint ocean reef. Seem to be working fine. 3 weeks in..

I wanna switch in the near future.

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

I have a whole new bag of Red Sea blue the 200g sack in reserve haven’t used it since AF had become more readily available to the American reefer. Bought it cause of the major elemental ratio as per the icp listed on salt. And it’s where I like to keep my tank. Also The quality of the mix and the duration it takes to get clarity are +.

 

[Northern Flicker]

Regular old purple IO.

 

[tmc13]

Red Sea (blue bucket)

 

[Potatohead]

Red Sea Blue, although I do mix in about 20% IO as well sometimes to get the alkalinity closer to 8.5-8.8.

 

[Pelagikos]

Red Sea Blue Bucket. Mixes clean for me with power head. The trick is not to mix it for too long, approximately 20 minutes.
I have a mixed reef, acros-euphyllia.

 

[homer1475]

Just look at the responses here. Long time reefers, IO, fairly new reefers choose whats popular like red sea and AF, or what the hype machine BRS tells them to use.

Salt will not magically make your reef better. Among the major brands, salt is salt, just choose what matches your price point and parameters you want to keep.

Long time reefer(going on 20+ years). I have used just about every salt on the market, and always find myself going back to plain jane purple box IO. Price is decent, it's one of the most consistent salts on the market, widely available in just about any pet store on the planet, and just about every large aquarium/museum on the planet uses it.

Those are facts that cannot be disputed.

 

[Fishingandreefing]

Just look at the responses here. Long time reefers, IO, fairly new reefers choose whats popular like red sea and AF, or what the hype machine BRS tells them to use.

Salt will not magically make your reef better. Among the major brands, salt is salt, just choose what matches your price point and parameters you want to keep.

Long time reefer(going on 20+ years). I have used just about every salt on the market, and always find myself going back to plain jane purple box IO. Price is decent, it's one of the most consistent salts on the market, widely available in just about any pet store on the planet, and just about every large aquarium/museum on the planet uses it.

Those are facts that cannot be disputed.

My biggest hold back is that it mixes dirty.

 

[FoolishWizard]

Nyos pure has been great so far. 5min mixing time.

Whats the longest you have stored a mixed batch?

 

[FoolishWizard]

NYOS Pure here.

 

[homer1475]

Simple and easy fix for that.

BRS did a video a while back where they used a sediment filter from and RO/DI unit to "filter" the water before sending it to the tank. I took that one step further and put one on a recirculating loop. My barrels are as clean as they were on day one.

 

[doubleshot00]

Instant ocean for 20 years. Why fix what isn’t broken?

 

[homer1475]

All of those that say they are moxing for 5 to whatever minutes should watch the BRS video about salt mixes and how long it actually takes them to be a homogeneous mix.

Most mixes took anywhere from a few hours, to 24 hours to become homogeneous.