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Old 06-30-2009, 04:18 AM
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Hey guys, I just bought some Instant Ocean Reef Crystals from Elite Aquatics here. Colby said that he uses it in his whole system and I plan on a reef tank.

Ive read that regular instant ocean needs to be supplemented, whats the case with the reef crystals ones?
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Old 06-30-2009, 07:02 AM
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Reef Crystals need to be supplemented as well. IME alkalinity is good but calcium and magnesium is low.
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marine enviroment or bio sea salts work the best they score 90% AND 100% ON TEST CHARTS. check it out. dan
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Just finishing my bucket of R/C and I;m going back to just regular I/O salt. Found had to suppliment just as much, and Alk was high on my bucket, really high
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Umm, a tank or 5
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I would stick with IO, one of the best all round salts. you need to bump the Mg and Ca up a bit but thats it. lots of people have switched to others and a good chunk have gone back to IO.

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It depends what you want. If you want plug n play salt, Reefers Best, for me, doesn't need supplementing. It's expensive though. IO is a good standard salt that has topped the popularity charts for 20 years. It's not expensive, but you might need to add stuff. When I used it, I ran a large Ca reactor, and never added anything to my salt. My tank did fine. So maybe go with IO, see how it works for you, then decide if something is missing.
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