Redsea coral salt
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jgraz
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That video is crap. Did anyone notice how that water went cloudy in stages rather then smoothly over time.
I have been using this salt for some time. I use a 20gal tank heated to 77* mixed continuously with a mag 5. At any given time there is at least 5 gal going, constantly, as in 24/7. I have never experienced this, at all. Nor do I expect to. I get the initial cloudiness which is to be expected then it gone for good.
I have been using this salt for some time. I use a 20gal tank heated to 77* mixed continuously with a mag 5. At any given time there is at least 5 gal going, constantly, as in 24/7. I have never experienced this, at all. Nor do I expect to. I get the initial cloudiness which is to be expected then it gone for good.
The video isn't crap or faked, it is most likely time lapsed because nobody wants to sit and watch water turn cloudy over a several minute period. It is a demonstration of the precipitation that can POSSIBLY happen when you change the equilibrium conditions of the mixing water.
Anyway, I have been usin the salt for quite sometime, about a year maybe a little longer and it has always been a black bucket. I have had opposite effect of algae problems, algae won't grow in my display so I ordered a Hannah checker to do some testing of my own. Check out the results of my two tests
My phosphates are too low, and I haven't done a water change in two weeks. I am about to run a test on freshly mixed red sea coral pro salt in about thirty minutes when it gets done mixing.
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What a strange thread…seems to begin in the middle by defending a product that nobody slighted. Kinda feels like Red Sea cheer leading.
FWIW, all salts get mixed pretty much the same way as each other - nothing special about this one.
-Matt
FWIW, all salts get mixed pretty much the same way as each other - nothing special about this one.
-Matt
jgraz
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The video isn't crap or faked, it is most likely time lapsed because nobody wants to sit and watch water turn cloudy over a several minute period. It is a demonstration of the precipitation that can POSSIBLY happen when you change the equilibrium conditions of the mixing water.
Anyway, I have been usin the salt for quite sometime, about a year maybe a little longer and it has always been a black bucket. I have had opposite effect of algae problems, algae won't grow in my display so I ordered a Hannah checker to do some testing of my own. Check out the results of my two tests
My phosphates are too low, and I haven't done a water change in two weeks. I am about to run a test on freshly mixed red sea coral pro salt in about thirty minutes when it gets done mixing.
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Are you serious? Your attributing the use Red Sea Salt to your lack of Phosphates.
No, I am saying I am using red sea coral pro and not having phosphate problems...therefore if somebody else is having phosphate problems then it is (most likely) not the salt causing it.
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Ok I spent all morning running these tests and I guess because I am posting them online got the most awkward results ever, but since I said I'd post then I will.
The water coming out of my RO is reading 59 tds, 0 nitrates, and a phosphate level of 0.33 ppm, so apparently I need to replace my RO membrane. I have one in the closet but will wait till I get the phosphate levels in my tank up before I replace it. Below are the pics.
I mix the water in a graduated 5 gallon painters bucket from lowes, as can be seen in the pics I have a buildup of brown residue on the sides. I use a maxijet 900 on circulation mode to mix it. And you can see how agitated the water is.
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The water coming out of my RO is reading 59 tds, 0 nitrates, and a phosphate level of 0.33 ppm, so apparently I need to replace my RO membrane. I have one in the closet but will wait till I get the phosphate levels in my tank up before I replace it. Below are the pics.
I mix the water in a graduated 5 gallon painters bucket from lowes, as can be seen in the pics I have a buildup of brown residue on the sides. I use a maxijet 900 on circulation mode to mix it. And you can see how agitated the water is.
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I mixed the water for approximately 15 minutes, and I added 5 1/2 cups (total of 5/2 cups or roughly a half cup per gallon) of the salt mix to the water while the maxijet was running. There was about 4+1/2 gallons of RO water in the bucket when adding the salt. The before and after pics are below. The water is at 19.6 degrees Celsius.
I then tested for nitrates, phosphates, salinity, alk, and calcium. The phosphate reading is not what I suspected.
Salinity 40 ppm
Phosphates 0.17 ppm
Calcium ~ 510 Titrant used was 1.06 ml
Alk ~ 14 dKh Titrant used was 1.02 ml
Nitrates 0
The mixed water is the one on the left the RO water on the right.
The salinity level was higher than the reccomended 35 ppt reccomended by red sea, that is why the alk and calcium tests were high. The difference in phosphate levels I attribute to the fact I pulled the RO water to be measured out of that sweet Garfield cup rather than the mixing bucket, and there must be a residue inside the cup that through the test off, and the results are difficult to make any kind of comparison with. I am down to my last two reagents for phosphate testing and will run the test again pulling the ro water from the bucket this weekend.
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I then tested for nitrates, phosphates, salinity, alk, and calcium. The phosphate reading is not what I suspected.
Salinity 40 ppm
Phosphates 0.17 ppm
Calcium ~ 510 Titrant used was 1.06 ml
Alk ~ 14 dKh Titrant used was 1.02 ml
Nitrates 0
The mixed water is the one on the left the RO water on the right.
The salinity level was higher than the reccomended 35 ppt reccomended by red sea, that is why the alk and calcium tests were high. The difference in phosphate levels I attribute to the fact I pulled the RO water to be measured out of that sweet Garfield cup rather than the mixing bucket, and there must be a residue inside the cup that through the test off, and the results are difficult to make any kind of comparison with. I am down to my last two reagents for phosphate testing and will run the test again pulling the ro water from the bucket this weekend.
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