What salt are you using?

[Yuki Rihwa]

I went from IO to instant ocean

LOL I live pretty close to the beach too but I'm shy with too many buckets and folks at the beach giving me a weird look

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

I"m using IO atm but I'm switching to RSCP this weekend, so I don't need to dose extra stuff and I do weekly WC.

 

[stevo01]

The concern with aeration is O2 and pH/CO2.

If you fully aerated your source water (RO/DI), the only CO2 will be an issue, since seawater holds less O2 than fresh.

It is certainly possible to formulate a salt mix so that it need not have any pH issues before aeration. That said, some have historically been quite high in pH before aeration brings the pH down.

It is also possible to mix most mixes in 5 minutes, but you need a lot of turbulence:

How to Mix a Batch of Synthetic Seawater in Under Five Minutes
http://web.archive.org/web/20011217234403/www.animalnetwork.com/fish2/aqfm/1997/sep/bio/default.asp

Thanks for explaining this! Ill get back to you with a time stamp and ph reading at that time stamp.

 

[stevo01]

LOL I live pretty close to the beach too but I'm shy with too many buckets and folks at the beach giving me a weird look

First thing I would think is they have a reef tank lol.

 

[HB AL]

You're not going to get much more in there! Stunning.

Thats my problem right now as i posted in a thread i started cuz reefapalooza is 15 minutes from my house tommorrow!

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Thats my problem right now as i posted in a thread i started cuz reefapalooza is 15 minutes from my house tommorrow!

I can help.

Bring frags. Park next to the white BMW wagon.

 

[HB AL]

Is that a C. rhomboidalis? Looks great! Big belly

Naw just a green coris, its always fat it just searches and eats pods all day, its usually under the sand when i feed my fish in the evening.

 

[Whipples]

Fritz salt here, no complaints!

 

[stevo01]

@Randy Holmes-Farley I just got off the phone with him. Says the mix is clear at 6 minutes, and it ph stabile at 15 minutes. Water can be added to the system that quickly. He has triton tests to back this up the data with. No compensation, and no impurities that would speed up algea growth. It blows everything else out of the water. As soon as im out of RSCP in switching. He says my coral will be immediately happier. He says the scientist behind the mix is a friend of yours lol.

 

[stevo01]

And the mix ratio is amazingly better. 180 gallons from a 200lb box @ 1.025.

 

[stevo01]

Naw just a green coris, its always fat it just searches and eats pods all day, its usually under the sand when i feed my fish in the evening.

It was really hard to tell which one it was, but i really didnt think i was going to get the whole darn genus wrong!

 

[Potatohead]

And the mix ratio is amazingly better. 180 gallons from a 200lb box @ 1.025.

That's a lot of salt

 

[stevo01]

It comes out to .46 cents per gallon. Win win win situation for me. I just have to use up about 30lbs of RSCP first. The batches are really big too. Salt you buy right now is from the same batch 4 months ago.

 

[stevo01]

That's a lot of salt

He mixes a box at a time I guess lol. I can do 55 gallon batches.

 

[Danny Venditti]

Dont do Fritz, i would stick with RSCP. I know multiple awesome tanks that crashed from Fritz. Its very controversial right now also with very high ALK btw. Another option that ive actually heard is maybe the best out there is hotsalt

I agree I was using Fritz and switched back to RSCP. I may end up switching to ESV for the ALK reason. Fritz was mixing all over the place from batch to batch.

 

[Antics]

I use Aquaforest's Probiotic salt but I'm thinking about trying Fritz's RPM.

 

[Danny Venditti]

I use Aquaforest's Probiotic salt but I'm thinking about trying Fritz's RPM.

I gave it a while before switching. First batch was great the next 3 I had issues with, and I thoroughly mixed the salt up in another container when I first got it. I think maybe the spike in popularity put a strain on their production quality.

 

[Antics]

I think maybe the spike in popularity put a strain on their production quality.

Clearly it's because Fritz RPM is like a fine wine that requires proper aging in the bucket before use.

 

[HB AL]

It was really hard to tell which one it was, but i really didnt think i was going to get the whole darn genus wrong!

I'm not a wrasses guru, but I have 2 and this guy is my favorite

 

[DSC reef]

I'm not a wrasses guru, but I have 2 and this guy is my favorite

Makes me miss my red coris...we grew him from a tiny juvinile