Changing Salt - Do I need to do anything special?

seastar · Jan 11, 2016

Hey there, want to raise my magnesium from what IO was giving me and I'm on the redsea program, so I wanted to go with their coral pro salt because of those elevated levels.

I just ran out of the rest of my IO, anything special I need to do? Large/small water changes?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Jan 11, 2016

No, it doesn't really matter how you switch over.

If you are currently supplementing calcium you may need less now, but you can swap in as fast or slow as you want.

brandon429 · Jan 11, 2016

agreed. I switch constantly as my LFS makes purchase changes of premade water/salt based on pricing. since tanks are small Im doing only 100% changes, using most kinds of coral.

seastar · Jan 11, 2016

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
No, it doesn't really matter how you switch over.

If you are currently supplementing calcium you may need less now, but you can swap in as fast or slow as you want.

Thanks a ton! Always appreciate your help!

seastar · Jan 11, 2016

brandon429 said:
agreed. I switch constantly as my LFS makes purchase changes of premade water/salt based on pricing. since tanks are small Im doing only 100% changes, using most kinds of coral.

Sounds good, thank you. I have a little of everything in my tank right now as well so good to know they should all do ok.