salt

[jose hernandez]

thinking of switching salts i use aquaforest reef salt i do 30 gallon water changes on my system every week tank is 200 gallons you are able to check icp oes results online using the batch # so i did my batch showed 0 phosphates so i checked my mixed water phosphates tested 0.03 what salt would be good that does not contain phosphates was thinking tropic marin pro but used to use it then the recall happened and i stopped

 

[Salty_Northerner]

I'm now using tropic Marin pro, the first box was from Germany and the one I'm using now is from Turkey, and honestly I'm not having any issues.. if anything the Turkey salt mixes clearer faster then the Germany batch. I wouldn't doubt TM as that issue has been corrected.

Just my 2 cents

 

[jose hernandez]

Was looking at the Nyos similar to Aquaforest they use triton testing

 

[rtparty]

Couple things. Home test kits aren’t accurate, precise, or reliable enough to measure .03 consistently.

All salts have the possibility of having some phosphate. There is nothing wrong with it. Phosphate is essential to life.

Phosphate could have been introduced from RO water or your mixing bin as well.

Zero reason to change salts.

 

[Uncle99]

Not much phosphate if accurate.
What does your phosphate run at normally?
If it’s in the .05-.15ppm range, I’d do nothing.
Changing salts changes chemistry and that can upset the tank stability.

 

[jose hernandez]

K thnks

 

[RedReefer]

How clean are your mixing barrels? TDS creep will build up inside. I wash my mixing barrels every 300 gal.

 

[jose hernandez]

wash after every water change and then rinse b4 i mix another batch

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

How clean are your mixing barrels? TDS creep will build up inside. I wash my mixing barrels every 300 gal.

What are you referring to in terms of TDS creep in a sakt mixing barrel?

I never cleaned mine and see little reason to do so.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

wash after every water change and then rinse b4 i mix another batch

Sounds entirely unnecessary to me. What are you trying to remove that would be an issue?

 

[jose hernandez]

dont want a salt that has phosphate in it im relying on my water changes to lower phosphates it would make no sense to do water changes if im introducing phosphates after my water change

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

dont want a salt that has phosphate in it im relying on my water changes to lower phosphates it would make no sense to do water changes if im introducing phosphates after my water change

Salt mixes generally do not have enough phosphate to worry about, the residue in a salt mix is not particularly phosphate-laden, and water changes are an unusually poor way to lower phosphate since, unlike nitrate, even a 100% change with zero phosphate water may not lower as much as you wan since a lot may be bound to rock and sand and will come off when you try to lower phosphate.

 

[jose hernandez]

K

 

[Rmckoy]

dont want a salt that has phosphate in it im relying on my water changes to lower phosphates it would make no sense to do water changes if im introducing phosphates after my water change

I didn’t think water changes alone have any effect on reducing phosphates in a system .
If so it’s minimal .
Phosphates are bound to surfaces such as rocks sand , etc .

A phosphate reducing media could be added

from my understanding phosphates come from many products including the source water