Myka's Guide to Calcium, Alkalinity, Magnesium, pH, and Salinity

[fkshiu]

Originally Posted by Myka

Personally, I am not a fan of bulk chemicals for reef keeping, and I regret to say that I can't even explain why very well. I have found over the years that "most" tanks that use bulk chemicals instead of aquarium designed products seem to lack a bit of pizazz. I am sure you could find 500 photos that would prove otherwise, and I would be hard to disagree. However, in my experience I find aquarium designed products outperform bulk chemicals, and I don't know why.

I really like the C-Balance product. Without listing the different "raw chemical" two-part solutions as I believe that most all aquarium designed two-parts are far superior to most all bulk chemical two-parts I would place TLF C-Balance over Kent Tech-CB, ESV B-Ionic, Salifert All-In-One, and AquaC Complete. I quite like the KNOP products, but they don't really have a two-part.

Fair enough. I believe it's called the power of "branding"

[Doug]

FWIW & likely coincidental, the best tank I have had, ran for years in the late 90,s on C-Balance. 70g softy tank, took 30m of each per day.

And I have used both the homemade and ESV, {the latter I thought was pretty good}.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by fkshiu

Fair enough. I believe it's called the power of "branding"

Oh probably!!!

Originally Posted by Doug

FWIW & likely coincidental, the best tank I have had, ran for years in the late 90,s on C-Balance. 70g softy tank, took 30m of each per day.

And I have used both the homemade and ESV, {the latter I thought was pretty good}.

Honestly, I think every two-part I have ever used was "pretty good", I just found that I came to prefer C-Balance over the rest.