switching salt soon

[BlueTang<3]

Originally Posted by Myka

I just dose potassium. It's cheap. I have yet to find a salt that doesn't need magnesium dosing. I haven't tried RB though.

Reefers best mixes at about 1150(Elos) for mg i bought 10 boxes when i bought them. When i first switched from h20cean to best i has amazing colours. But i have either gotten used to them or they have faded.

[Bblinks]

I have just picked up a box of reefers best salt from jl for 100 bucks. I have always used reef crystal on all my tanks, now that my display is full of sps I figure I should try some thing better...
If there is no reason for the switch I would rather stay with my reef crystal. I have always mixed my salt with ro water and never had a problem with any residue form reef crystal.
My question for those advanced reefer with sps dominated tanks is it worth the extra money to use a "better" salt?
I know Myka's feed back has been salt is salt is salt is salt, but I am really curious if anyone else out there has seen a difference.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by BlueTang<3

Reefers best mixes at about 1150(Elos) for mg i bought 10 boxes when i bought them. When i first switched from h20cean to best i has amazing colours. But i have either gotten used to them or they have faded.

Thanks for the feedback! Good to know RB needs to be dosed for magnesium just like the others. I still have another year's supply of H2Ocean, so I will stick with that for now. Maybe one day I will try RB.

[BlueTang<3]

I find your tangent after rolling the pail down the stairs around the house i always found very low alk readings from the few pails of h2 ocean i used. I always keep 90 gallons or so of water around for emergencies and with the h2 ocean i found it leaves some nasty stuff in the tub along with other salts also. With the Rb there is nothing even after 3 weeks. Another reason i changed is the crappy plastic handle on the pails or h2 ocean almost broke me toes a few times. When you read on zeovit.com some people say mg bang on some see it as high as 1800 so it seems weird.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by BlueTang<3

I find your tangent after rolling the pail down the stairs around the house i always found very low alk readings from the few pails of h2 ocean i used. I always keep 90 gallons or so of water around for emergencies and with the h2 ocean i found it leaves some nasty stuff in the tub along with other salts also. With the Rb there is nothing even after 3 weeks. Another reason i changed is the crappy plastic handle on the pails or h2 ocean almost broke me toes a few times. When you read on zeovit.com some people say mg bang on some see it as high as 1800 so it seems weird.

Hmm, my first pail of H2Ocean tests 9 dKH with Elos kit. I find H2Ocean mixes cleaner than IO, with IO leaving flakes or stuff on the bottom of the tub (some are shiny!?!), but they both leave calcium deposits in the mixing tub...to be expected. Don't you get that with RB? Sometimes I think weird readings can be bad test kits, bad batch of salt, or poor testing habits. Never know...

[BlueTang<3]

Yeah i dont find calcium deposits but i got a lot of flow in there and wipe it out a lot. I will check its levels and post the results in a day or so.

[globaldesigns]

Originally Posted by Bblinks

I have just picked up a box of reefers best salt from jl for 100 bucks. I have always used reef crystal on all my tanks, now that my display is full of sps I figure I should try some thing better...
If there is no reason for the switch I would rather stay with my reef crystal. I have always mixed my salt with ro water and never had a problem with any residue form reef crystal.
My question for those advanced reefer with sps dominated tanks is it worth the extra money to use a "better" salt?
I know Myka's feed back has been salt is salt is salt is salt, but I am really curious if anyone else out there has seen a difference.

I am in no way a pro, and I will admit that I am having some SPS issues with death and colorization... I switched to Reefers Best to see if it helps, been running for approx 4 months. Nothing really improving, as of yet. so I can't honestly say the salt change is helping me.

I have 1.5 boxes of RB and 2 more on order with my LFS, if I don't see really any changes after these boxes, I might think about going back to Reef Crystals.

[KevinK]

Originally Posted by Myka

I just dose potassium. It's cheap. I have yet to find a salt that doesn't need magnesium dosing. I haven't tried RB though.

what do you use for the potassium and how much?

[daniella3d]

Interesting. I never ever had any deposite with IO or Reef Crystal but always have had a brown deposite, sort of shiny, with H2O and I tried 3 buckets with the same result. After writing to DD they said it was due to ferric oxide they add...not exactly pure salt mix huh?

Originally Posted by Myka

Hmm, my first pail of H2Ocean tests 9 dKH with Elos kit. I find H2Ocean mixes cleaner than IO, with IO leaving flakes or stuff on the bottom of the tub (some are shiny!?!), but they both leave calcium deposits in the mixing tub...to be expected. Don't you get that with RB? Sometimes I think weird readings can be bad test kits, bad batch of salt, or poor testing habits. Never know...

[Myka]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

Interesting. I never ever had any deposite with IO or Reef Crystal but always have had a brown deposite, sort of shiny, with H2O and I tried 3 buckets with the same result. After writing to DD they said it was due to ferric oxide they add...not exactly pure salt mix huh?

Hmm, haven't had that. However, ferric oxide is simply GFO minus the G. Ferric oxide is a fancy way to say rust. Not a big deal...however I'm not sure having the GFO mixed in the salt is really a good thing.