REEF SALT PREFERENCE?
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This is a good salt and I used for quite a time. This will give you Alk-8 with fairly good calcium but it is lower side for magnesium but not very low. It has quite high amount Potassium....in short its good.
jsker
Reefing is all about the adventure
http://www.leonardosreef.com/2012/06/guide-to-balling/ and I use http://aquaforest.eu/en/product/component-1-2-3/ pre mixed simple to implement
Potassium is good....but which salt you are using right now?
Scott.h
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I used to use IO reef crystals but switched to pro reef awhile ago. I believe it's a better quality salt. It dissolves better, and the parimeters are closer together from bucket to bucket. That said, it's considerably more money, and I'm still dosing mg to get it up past 1300, cal to get it past 410 and soda ash to get it past 7. IMO you shouldn't have to pay a premium for a salt that you have to dose right from the start. (Although technically the parimeters are at natural sea levels) But that said I won't go back to IO. Really it depends on what you have, and what you are trying to do. Fish and softies.. Any quality salt should work without dosing much of anything into the new water. I'm considering the TM bio active, but that's even more yet. In fact I believe it's the most expensive salt on the market. Double the cost of Reef crystals. Worth it? Probably not. Time will tell. Every salt seems to have its down sides. And the stuff inside the tank usually don't care as much as we think. And lots of people have had complete success with way cheaper salts.
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Robthorn
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If a salt is at or very near nsw it is considered balanced and it is intended to keep your tank stable when doing water changes. If you run your tank where nature is you do not need to boost newly mixed water. Bumping the salt is your choice not a neccessity and therefore is not a bad salt. I tend to try and get close to nsw levels when possible.
