Salt discussion

[Dcole12]

Hi Everyone,

I am currently using reef crystals as my salt and have been using for about a year. This has great reviews, but I want to hear some opinions on other salts. Is it okay to change salts already in an established tank? What salts do people prefer? I am about to do one more water change and will be out of salt. So will be needing to buy more. Want to get input. I currently have bubble tip anem, duncan corals, and zoa's. I have a tang and some clowns, goby, shrimp, snowflake eel, and a 6 line. What do people suggest for salts and has the best for its buck. I want something that provides the best for my tank! Thank you for the feedback!

 

[Flippers4pups]

I've always used Instant Ocean in my reefs.

Best advice, pick a salt you like and can afford and stick with it.

 

[Nick Steele]

It all depends on what parameters you keep your tank at.

I use Seachem vibrant ($45 for 150g or so) and I get:
8.1 alk
440 calc
1400 mag

 

[ReefLab]

I use Brightwell's neomarine. I wait for it to go on sale on amazon. mixes fine.
used to use TMP and that was fine, just a bit expensive.

They'll all work and you'll just have to decide for yourself which you prefer!

 

[mike550]

I use Tropic Marin Pro Reef. It mixes well and so far so good. One thing I’d like to highlight is that it mixes to a fairly low Alk (7-ish) for a salinity of 1.025-ish. I think most people have a calcium reactor (?) to manage Alk. I just add some dry soda ash and raise it to my target of 8.5.

If you switch salts just do it with the water changes. Assuming your changes are 10-15% the transition will be pretty smooth.