I am so frustrated!!

[Oceanic]

Originally Posted by seanoman

I have been raising both my alk and mg. I have been doing both through my top off for the past few days. I checked my alk last night and it was close to 8.5 and mg was around 1200. So slowly but surely, they are coming up. The rate of decline has seemed to slow down aswell. I will be doing another water change today and think I will actually be changing salts aswell, as I need to buy more anyways. I was thinking of using the H2O salt, does anybody have good experience with it? I have only seen good reviews for it, and it seems to have higher mg and alk then what seachem does.

Good to know! I am happy to hear that things are looking better. As far as salt is concerned I would just go with Instant Ocean, the salt is well priced and has been proven for decades. I have never used another salt and couldn't be happier.

Just try to get away from the Seachem salt, the boron in the salt just makes things confusing to test and balance.