Salt alk

[asylumdown]

Really? I've found the exact opposite. I use IO in my QT system because I do the tank transfer method as a prophylactic against ich on all new fish. Dumping that much salt required the cheapest brand I could get. I need 3 and a bit of my Pyrex measuring cups (not sure exactly how much that is as the graduated lines stop about 2/3 of the way up) to get 15 gallons of water to 1.025 when I use IO, but I needed over 4 cups the two times I had run out of IO and used the more expensive H2Ocean. I also couldn't get H2Ocean once so I bought reefers best instead, and while I need 9 full Pyrex thingys to get my water change water to 1.025 on the big tank, I needed just under 8 of reefer's best.

My measurements aren't exactly scientific obviously, so it's probably not fair to compare them that way, I just always found that I burn through a bucket of H2Ocean way faster than other brands.

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

Really? I've found the exact opposite. I use IO in my QT system because I do the tank transfer method as a prophylactic against ich on all new fish. Dumping that much salt required the cheapest brand I could get. I need 3 and a bit of my Pyrex measuring cups (not sure exactly how much that is as the graduated lines stop about 2/3 of the way up) to get 15 gallons of water to 1.025 when I use IO, but I needed over 4 cups the two times I had run out of IO and used the more expensive H2Ocean. I also couldn't get H2Ocean once so I bought reefers best instead, and while I need 9 full Pyrex thingys to get my water change water to 1.025 on the big tank, I needed just under 8 of reefer's best.

My measurements aren't exactly scientific obviously, so it's probably not fair to compare them that way, I just always found that I burn through a bucket of H2Ocean way faster than other brands.

Refrac might have deceived you I also use pyrex measuring cup and fill till 1cup mark (2/3 the cup) and takes 2 cup to get 5 gallon to 1.026 using h2ocean. I have started using IO on my QT tank that I am setting up right now but previously when I used IO, it took 2.5 cups every 5 gallon to bring the salinity to about 1.021-1.022 so about 3 cups were needed for 1.025-1.026.

[xenon]

We use Tropic Marin Pro Reef and the alkalinity is usually around 7dkh unless you get a bad batch (happens more often than I would like).

My last bucket measured 39 on my hanna meter (2.1dkh).

[Doug]

Used IO for a bazzillion years and will keep on. I have not measured the alk lately in a new mix but it was usually high...................................however I never found it effected my tank on a water change.

Except way back when I was on well water and no DI on my ro left my well water with a high alk and that combined with the high alk in IO at the time.....was hard on my tank. My stupidity never figured that out and cost me my 10yr old 2 ft sq. bubble coral that my clowns lived in.

[rburns24]

What does Tropic Marin say about this. 39ppm would be unusable, no? I'd like to switch to TMP Pro, as I started Zeovit on one tank, but lack of stabililty scares me off.

Originally Posted by xenon

We use Tropic Marin Pro Reef and the alkalinity is usually around 7dkh unless you get a bad batch (happens more often than I would like).

My last bucket measured 39 on my hanna meter (2.1dkh).