Are the salts manufacturer lying to us?

[Superlightman]

Hello, just found this interesting article, don't know when it was written, but if it was true, it probably still is?

Trace Elements in Synthetic Sea Water – Aqua Craft®

aquacraft.net

So which salt could we trust?
Also, which salt contain the elements same uranium.. that seems newly to be important for our corals?

Trace Elements and Coral Collection Location

I want to start this article off by saying that this is an extremely niche subject and many reefers who perform frequent or even semi-frequent water changes should not worry about their trace elements if most your corals are growing well because...

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[PatW]

The article clearly has a bias. It is essentially an advertisement for one salt mix and it says all the other ones are not good.

I guess a way to find out would be to mix up your salt and send a sample off to be analyzed for trace elements. You would not even NEED to do this. People report their trace elements all the time here.

Another thing to check is the procedures followed by some of the best people at raising acropora corals like Adam at Battlecorals or Top Shelf or World Wide Corals or ORA or Jason Fox.

 

[Superlightman]

The article clearly has a bias. It is essentially an advertisement for one salt mix and it says all the other ones are not good.

I guess a way to find out would be to mix up your salt and send a sample off to be analyzed for trace elements. You would not even NEED to do this. People report their trace elements all the time here.

Another thing to check is the procedures followed by some of the best people at raising acropora corals like Adam at Battlecorals or Top Shelf or World Wide Corals or ORA or Jason Fox.

yes it seems bias but still his arguments seems to be correct, which procedures battlecorals and the others are using?
I'm wondering if the ati liquid salt is better ,but there is not a lot of information about the minor trace elements? Seems it have just the major?