Aquarium salt preferance

[quigimon]

Looking for some opinions on salt preferance, I started my tank with instant ocean salt with the fish in mind but as of late have become more interested in the coral side of things and was curious to know if there is a "preferred" salt for such. Also I'm aware that salt alone isn't the key and that their may be additives required based on livestock so any info on that based on varied corals would be of use as well.
Thanks.

 

[schooleyosis]

I run regular IO and I have corals. Seems to mix up quickly. I do add Mag and Cal to it before adding it back into the tank at water change time. For 15 gallons of makeup water I add 100mL of Cal and about 200mL of Mag.

 

[greg0385]

i use salinity salt, i run bio-pellets and need to keep a lower alk. so this salt is lab tested and mixes at my desired levels without having to worry about params swings with W/C.

 

[Dowtish]

It seems that the regular(not the coral pro) Red Sea salt has been working well for quite a few in the club.

 

[solar]

I use instant ocean just the regular one, have always used it works fine for me

 

[gmoney243]

Red sea regular mixes low alk and is much cheaper. My fav salt been using over a year

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[pickupman66]

I am using reef Crystals at the moment. I like the way the salt is packaged in the 4 bags in the 200G box. when I have to add some salt, I can then reseal the bag with a vacuum sealer. I also used the Oceanic salt too and it worked well. I liked that it was a very fine powder and that it came in a nice 6 gallon bucket. I have 4 or 5 nice usable buckets thanks to that salt.

also, being in a very remote area I have all mine shipped in. it is nice to get a 200 gallon box shipped to my door for under $55 total.

 

[aslmx]

Reef Crystals. Tried regular IO but couldnt keep cal and alk stable so went back to RC and happier now.

 

[quigimon]

I'm getting a Black Friday list together, I might get lucky and find a sale online, that hitting the stores is for the birds.

 

[.AcroKiller.]

I like RSCP

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[gmoney243]

heres a killer tank running just instant ocean. one of the best sps reef tanks ive seen. very basic setup 500g huge colonies

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[EpicWin]

I run salinity. It is priced to mix 225 gal at 1.026 so when u do the math it's quite a bit more than a bucket that mixes to 1.023. For the price I get it it's cheaper than reef crystals and equal or better quality. Don't listen to peeps saying run cheap salt. There is science behind the reasons not to.

 

[p woodard]

I run salinity also and the old saying is true you get what you pay for. I used instant ocean for years

 

[gmoney243]

I run salinity. It is priced to mix 225 gal at 1.026 so when u do the math it's quite a bit more than a bucket that mixes to 1.023. For the price I get it it's cheaper than reef crystals and equal or better quality. Don't listen to peeps saying run cheap salt. There is science behind the reasons not to.

science put out by the company trying to sell the salt lol. IO and red sea are both notable brands. many high end sps tanks run IO as well as notable aquarist.

 

[pickupman66]

Quigmon. Pet solutions regularly has $5 shipping on their salt. Dr fosters and Smith (CLUB SPONSOR) normally has Free shipping over $50. box of RC salt is like $46 so throw on some Food and you are golden.

 

[Bishop]

As far as I know, Instant Ocean reef crystals only contains more calcium. Without a large amount of stony coral to take advantage of this, there is no point to using it. I use regular instant ocean mostly because it is convienent. It's the one salt that you can get anywhere in a pinch. I add purple-UP for added calcium and trace iodine and really seem to notice a difference compared to when I don't add it. A little Iodine seems to go a long way.