I used Instant Ocean for my fish only. I remember it being dirty. I use Red Sea Pro for my reef, I've only been at the reef For 6months. I watched a BRS video last year when doing research for my new tank, and they said Red Sea pro was good.
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+1I use the RedSea Coral Pro
Red sea the blue bucket is 80$ and used by some of my favorite coral farmers.Red sea coral pro salt. Its about $90 for the 200 gallon bag.
My biggest hold back is that it mixes dirty.Just look at the responses here. Long time reefers, IO, fairly new reefers choose whats popular like red sea and AF, or what the hype machine BRS tells them to use.
Salt will not magically make your reef better. Among the major brands, salt is salt, just choose what matches your price point and parameters you want to keep.
Long time reefer(going on 20+ years). I have used just about every salt on the market, and always find myself going back to plain jane purple box IO. Price is decent, it's one of the most consistent salts on the market, widely available in just about any pet store on the planet, and just about every large aquarium/museum on the planet uses it.
Those are facts that cannot be disputed.
Whats the longest you have stored a mixed batch?Nyos pure has been great so far. 5min mixing time.
Instant ocean for 20 years. Why fix what isn’t broken?