Red Sea coral Pro salt

[Jaybeastin]

I was told from a family to switch my salt and I think I may regret it. I’m switching from reef crystal to Red Sea pro salt. My tank is LPS & softies dominated and after research I found out that RSCP have high ALK. Would my tank be fine? What should I do?

 

[MNFish]

I thought reef crystals was also higher alk. Personally however if I did not have a specific issue with RC I would not change. What does your RC mix up to?

 

[MNFish]

Not sure how correct this is but it shows alk of rc pretty close to rcp.

 

[Jaybeastin]

Not sure how correct this is but it shows alk of rc pretty close to rcp.

Thank you, you’re actually right!

 

[Reef.]

I thought reef crystals was also higher alk. Personally however if I did not have a specific issue with RC I would not change. What does your RC mix up to?

just change to another salt such as Red Sea blue bucket, just use the new salt when you do water changes, no issues doing that.
Within a few weeks you’ll be fully changed over to the new salt.

 

[Jaybeastin]

just change to another salt such as Red Sea blue bucket, just use the new salt when you do water changes, no issues doing that.
Within a few weeks you’ll be fully changed over to the new salt.

Red Sea blue bucket better for LPS and softies ?

 

[Reef.]

Red Sea blue bucket better for LPS and softies ?

it has better alk, calcium and mag lvls, which are more suited to LPS, the pro has higher lvls which some people prefer for sps but that also comes with the issue that because they are higher you don’t have much of a margin for error, with the blue bucket, you can not worry so much if the lvls drop a little or go up a little, they will still be in a good range, with the pro already being high, if they go up you could be taking them past a safe range.

The main one though is the alk it’s around 7.5-8.5 which is right in the middle whereas the pro is right at the top around 11-12 no room for error there really.

 

[LegendaryCG]

Red Sea blue bucket better for LPS and softies ?

Depends entirely on your goals. What you don’t want is to maintain alk at like 7-8 dkh and then do a big water change to 12-13 dkh.
Higher levels is generally believed to result in faster coral growth which is why those products exist. Soft corals don’t use a lot of calcium like stony corals do.

 

[Reef.]

You dont have to waste the pro if you have it, just buy the blue bucket and mix a cup in of the pro for say every 3-4 cups of the blue bucket, when making your salt water.

 

[Jaybeastin]

Thanks for your help everyone! Will stick to the pro until I notice something wrong . Most likely going to switch to the blue bucket after I’m almost done with the pro

 

[Cell]

If you are having success with RC, why switch at all?