Not cool that they kinda rigged the test to see if they did leach aluminum into the saltwater by dosing the saltwater to be higher than normal saltwater concentrations of aluminum.
Sorry, that’s not true. They (eta: “allege” is better than the original “said“) the excess aluminum was in an unnamed commercial salt mix. (Probably for liability type reasons)
As the link to the Polish guy’s test in the other thread mentioned, some commercial salts mixes come with a lot of Al. I’m not aware of anyone triton testing newly mixed artificial seawater, so i’m not sure what the baseline is for those salts.
Anyway, assuming your salt mix doesn’t have a lot of aluminum in it, I still would be hesitant to pull out a marinepure from an existing tank. It’s a lot of biofiltration, and a change like that can be massively destabilizing to your tank. I’m not saying people shouldn’t do it, but people should think about it carefully in advance.
And yes, I think there is an Internet bandwagon phenomenon going on. Both for marinepure at first, and now against marinepure. I’ve been around enough Internet fora in different hobbies to see people chasing odd numbers for reasons they don’t understand. I’m not saying people should keep their Marinepures, it’s just that you should understand very well what you’re doing, and don’t just pull things out ( or add things) because suddenly something is considered bad on the Internet. Especially if things are going OK. Major changes when things are going OK usually lead to at least temporary problems.
I don’t know if I’m gonna use it for my upcoming build. But It’s right now my entire bio filter, and I’m not going to remove it anytime soon because of that.
Sorry this is poorly written. I dictated this into my phone.
