Reef salt to probiotic reef salt

[Chac317]

Just a quick question. I’m planning on switching from the regular reef salt to the probiotic reef salt and was curious if you’d recommend just going with 100% of the probiotic next water change to make the switch or if I should do part reef and part probiotic. It looks like the parameters are supposed to be the same so I’d imagine a 100% probiotic change would work but I just wanted to double check. Thanks!

Carl

 

[Aquaforest]

The best way to do this is with 10% water changes weekly until you are sufficiently changed over. You are introducing bacteria into your system and this needs to be done slowly.

Also once you are switched over to the Probiotic Salt you should only do 10% water changes with the Probiotic salt. If for some reason you need to do a larger water change in the future, use the Reef salt to do larger water changes. [emoji6]

 

[Chac317]

10% total water volume or 10% probiotic and 90% reef? And you are recommending 10% every 2 weeks? I’m on a 2 week schedule now. Sorry if these seem like dumb questions I’ve finally gotten to a happy sps tank and I don’t want to mess it up.

Carl

 

[Aquaforest]

There are no silly questions Carl.

If your concerned about messing things up and your happy , then why change??

I was saying that if you want to switch to the probiotic salt do a 10% total water volume change each week.

I recommend weekly water changes @ 10% of total water volume. So if your tank is 100 gallons you would change 10 gallons per week . No more than that.

 

[Chac317]

Mainly because I got a bucket of probiotic from a family member. Plus I’d like to see how the aminos affect my coloration. If my schedule has been every other week would you recommend 20%? Or stick with the 10%. Im trying to stick with the biweekly wc.

 

[jsker]

Do the %20 on the bi weekly and you will be fine.

 

[David Cher]

There are no silly questions Carl.

If your concerned about messing things up and your happy , then why change??

I was saying that if you want to switch to the probiotic salt do a 10% total water volume change each week.

I recommend weekly water changes @ 10% of total water volume. So if your tank is 100 gallons you would change 10 gallons per week . No more than that.

does it mean when settling up a new tank it is not recommended to use the probiotic salt ?

 

[120reefkeeper]

does it mean when settling up a new tank it is not recommended to use the probiotic salt ?

No it doesn’t mean that . That’s a totally separate thing. We are talking about changing an existing system that’s stable. When making changes to an existing reef it’s best to do it slow... the slower the better. When setting up a new system your not chancing loosing anything really.

I think the 10% once per week is your best bet. Slow and steady. They never recommend doing more than a 10% water change using the Probiotic Reef salt for a reason. It could upset the bacterial balance of the system .

Again I’d just take it slow.... no rush. 10% per week[emoji6]

 

[120reefkeeper]

Do the %20 on the bi weekly and you will be fine.

Doing 20% bi weekly would be fine with the Reef salt , but it’s not recommended to do that with the Probiotic. Different animal. [emoji41]

 

[jsker]

Doing 20% bi weekly would be fine with the Reef salt , but it’s not recommended to do that with the Probiotic. Different animal. [emoji41]

Really

 

[jda]

It will be like you are carbon dosing. You will fuel a bacterial bloom like like adding a bunch of vinegar, sugar or vodka all of a sudden. If you do too much of this, you can drop N and P very fast and stress the corals... or the multiplying bacteria can use up a lot of oxygen and starve other things.

Slow ramp up and down is very smart.

In addition to this, if you are going to dose these things, it is better to do it constantly rather than just at a water change.

 

[Chac317]

I don’t dose anything but 2 part. I will try starting with dropping the biweekly wc’s to 10% to start to hopefully avoid any major change.