Any advice on changing salt brand?

[crimson10]

Hi everyone… i have been using the blue fritz rpm salt mix for awhile … and i kind of want to try the blue bucket red sea salt mix…
I want to try it because im dosing using the 4 part RCP complete reef care …
And want more stabilized alk, ca and mg

 

[p1u5h13r4m24]

I made that exact switch before and I like my Red Sea blue salt. Probably the only thing made by them I will ever purchase :p

 

[crimson10]

I made that exact switch before and I like my Red Sea blue salt. Probably the only thing made by them I will ever purchase :p

Thank you…

 

[kevgib67]

If the salts mix to vastly different parameters when doing water changes add some of the new salt to your existing and each water change add more of the new salt until you are mixing 100% of the new salt.

 

[X-37B]

Hi everyone… i have been using the blue fritz rpm salt mix for awhile … and i kind of want to try the blue bucket red sea salt mix…
I want to try it because im dosing using the 4 part RCP complete reef care …
And want more stabilized alk, ca and mg

I use blue bucket on 4 systems.
It is close to my systems parameters and lfs carrys it.

 

[crimson10]

I made that exact switch before and I like my Red Sea blue salt. Probably the only thing made by them I will ever purchase :p

Thank you…

Did you encounter any swing in your parameters when you switched?

 

[p1u5h13r4m24]

Nope, I believe Red Sea is slightly lower in alk but it wasn’t an issue for me because I was already in that range

 

[BryanM]

Hi everyone… i have been using the blue fritz rpm salt mix for awhile … and i kind of want to try the blue bucket red sea salt mix…
I want to try it because im dosing using the 4 part RCP complete reef care …
And want more stabilized alk, ca and mg

I don't think you're going to get more stable parameters from a different salt.

you will get different parameters, and the biggest reason to change is if a salt mix is closer to what you want.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I don't think you're going to get more stable parameters from a different salt.

you will get different parameters, and the biggest reason to change is if a salt mix is closer to what you want.

I agree.

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

So to bring this thread back- i am going from reef crystals to nyos pure starting tomorrow. Would it be ok if In just go with my normal 10% wc or should i do a little less for the first time?

 

[Marco_99]

So to bring this thread back- i am going from reef crystals to nyos pure starting tomorrow. Would it be ok if In just go with my normal 10% wc or should i do a little less for the first time?

You should be fine.
I’ve used NYOS from the beginning and all I will tell you is it’s something that I personally can’t get local and it is out of stock quite frequently online so if you do a lot of water changes or if you have a bigger system, I would keep a few buckets/boxes on hand. Here’s a video if you care to watch as Kenny talks about it at about the 2 min mark. They recently just switched from instant Ocean to NYOS and he talks briefly about how they transitioned.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I don’t think anything needs to be worried about except alk changes if doing significant water changes.

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

You should be fine.
I’ve used NYOS from the beginning and all I will tell you is it’s something that I personally can’t get local and it is out of stock quite frequently online so if you do a lot of water changes or if you have a bigger system, I would keep a few buckets/boxes on hand. Here’s a video if you care to watch as Kenny talks about it at about the 2 min mark. They recently just switched from instant Ocean to NYOS and he talks briefly about how they transitioned.

thank you- that was very helpful

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

i can’t find extra nyos buckets anywhere so i just ordered a few of the 10kg boxes. They aren’t cheap.