What Salts have a Dkh around 8-9?

[JMLewis]

As the title asks what coral Salts have a DKH of around 8-9 and CA level of 420+?

Basically I hate having to adjust my freshly made water to match my tank so looking for something I can mix up and pour.

 

[Eckolancer]

Redsea is close to those levels. I get 8 and 420 when mixed to 35 salinity

 

[JMLewis]

Ok yea I was just looking up the Red Sea blue bucket. I have a bucket of the Red Sea Coral pro was thinking I could mix that and the blue bucket and get around 9 Dkh. Not sure if that's ok to do though.

 

[Eckolancer]

That might work.

 

[Greenstreet.1]

Esv.

 

[FlyinBryan]

They all do at salinity at around 1.0255.

 

[Sabellafella]

Esv.

Haha beat me to it, i use esv is around 8.5 but you can get it to 9 with a little tweaking of part b

 

[Greenstreet.1]

All I use bro but I keep mine 8-8.5

 

[mic209]

I was on the hunt for salt with these parameters with no luck. I started mixing regular instant ocean to 1.023 to 1.024 and it comes out closer to those numbers. Have you tried lowering your salinity?

 

[1fstnsx]

Tropic marine pro

 

[armetas]

preis mineralsalz or H2Ocean Natural Reef Salt

 

[JMLewis]

Esv.

I remember looking into using ESV years ago, but if I remembered right it's a lot of measuring different parts. Is it a pain to do?

I was on the hunt for salt with these parameters with no luck. I started mixing regular instant ocean to 1.023 to 1.024 and it comes out closer to those numbers. Have you tried lowering your salinity?

Not sure how I'd feel about that, I'm sure I'd be fine, but after keeping my tanks at 1.026 for over a decade I'd have to do some homework first.

preis mineralsalz or H2Ocean Natural Reef Salt

Actually I'll have to look into DD H2ocean again, I used to use it for years and liked it but I mistook it as the cause of my nitrates 4+ years ago (ended up being the mixing container itself) and haven't used it since.

 

[JMLewis]

Anyone seeing an issue with mixing 2 parts red sea regular to 1 part red sea pro?

Pro is around 12 regular is around 7.5, in theory this should bring me up to around 8.5-9 if I did that. Only reason I'm kinda leaning that way is because I have a fresh bucket of Red sea pro left in the garage lol.

 

[chaoha]

I'm using Red Sea Coral Pro and my Kh is 8-9 mixed out of the bucket.
I read a post awhile ago about salt mixes and someone was was mixing both Red Sea salts together I don't think you would have any problems

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I was on the hunt for salt with these parameters with no luck. I started mixing regular instant ocean to 1.023 to 1.024 and it comes out closer to those numbers. Have you tried lowering your salinity?

I would lower the alk with acid before I went to a lower salinity just to get lower alkalinity. I think to get normal IO (with, say 11 dKH) to 8-9 dKH you'd have to lower the salinity a lot further than you are using, more like a sg of 1.020.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I'm using Red Sea Coral Pro and my Kh is 8-9 mixed out of the bucket.
I read a post awhile ago about salt mixes and someone was was mixing both Red Sea salts together I don't think you would have any problems

You must either be using quite low salinity, or you are not getting even close to what Red Sea claims, which is about 12.5 dKH at 35 ppt.

Maybe you are getting substantial precipitation of calcium carbonate during mixing, which Red Sea warns about with extended stirring or heating, but which isn't a problem if you actually want the alkalinity lower than they provide.