I love RedSea Coral Pro. I find the slightly boosted trace elements to be right on the money for my softies. I started with Instant Ocean and found i had to supplement more Iodine, calcium, and mg frequently supplementing sometimes every few days with 15% weekly water changes. When I switched to Redsea Coral Pro, so long as I maintained the weekly waterchanges I rarely need supplements other than calcium. I think in the last 4 months trace elements have been on the money. I think I had to drop 1 ml of MG once but much easier for me.
What salt do you use?
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I love RedSea Coral Pro. I find the slightly boosted trace elements to be right on the money for my softies. I started with Instant Ocean and found i had to supplement more Iodine, calcium, and mg frequently supplementing sometimes every few days with 15% weekly water changes. When I switched to Redsea Coral Pro, so long as I maintained the weekly waterchanges I rarely need supplements other than calcium. I think in the last 4 months trace elements have been on the money. I think I had to drop 1 ml of MG once but much easier for me.
Malevolent
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Not sure why this topic came up (again). BRS did enough testing for even the most picky of reefers. It’s pretty simple, pick a salt that works with what you want in parameters. I dose, so tropic marine pro was the logical choice for me. I don’t know how many times it’s been said in almost any topic regarding chemistry (water quality) stability/consistency is your friend.
Red Sea Blue bucket but used Brightwell for a long time and like it too.
Nburg's Reef
High-Rise Reefer
Instant ocean. I have RS blue bucket in case I need to do a large water change in an emergency to not mess up my alk, but routine water change always has been IO.
dbdisok
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lester lloyd
Community Member
I have no brand loyalty I originally started with reef crystals I’ve learned other salts mixes easier like Red Sea and fritz but omega one has the less expensive and I have been using it in my frag tanks with no problems for about a year check it out
Nanorock1970
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Small water changes over a few weeks so you don’t shock your tank.
How does that work? I live only about 5 minutes from the ocean/beach. I had considered it, but I thought maybe where I live it might be more polluted near the shore. Do you go out in the ocean to deeper waters and collect there?
stefanm
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I collect from a jetty just before high tide, last collection was may last year, unfortunately my sump cracked at that time, so I used up all 500 litres then, rainy season now so can't collect and the jetty's closed due to the pandemic as the governor's house is close by..
