I started my Waterbox 10 gallon with Tropic Marin Bio-actif salt with distilled water.
As that was available in a 32 gallon package.
I need to buy more salt. I have a choice of Tropic Marin salts.
Will continue to use grocery store distilled water. $0.79 to $0.99 a gallon.
I am considering Tropic Marin Pro Reef or again the Bio-actif in a 80 gallon package. Now that it is stock again.
I understand that the Tropic Marin Bio-actif comes already "carbon dosed" which sort of seems good in a fishless reef tank.
The Bio-actif appears not to be causing any "problems"? But how would I know with just one tank?
Tropic Marin claims it can cause electronic salinity checkers to read incorrectly when first mixed, my Hanna checker does not seem to show much change over time. I run at 35 ppt.
I run a big bag of activated charcoal and two bags of the small chemi-pure blue nano.
No fish, but I do dose Red Sea AB+ and spot feed the frags Reef Roids on occasion.
Replaced the filter sock with a filter cylinder so I change the filter media a lot. Main export method.
Water changes about once a month. All soft corals except for the Hammer.
Have played with feeding micro planed frozen shrimp; trying to get the Hammer to eat something "big".
Little Shop of Horrors style.
-Big Mistake
As that was available in a 32 gallon package.
I need to buy more salt. I have a choice of Tropic Marin salts.
Will continue to use grocery store distilled water. $0.79 to $0.99 a gallon.
I am considering Tropic Marin Pro Reef or again the Bio-actif in a 80 gallon package. Now that it is stock again.
I understand that the Tropic Marin Bio-actif comes already "carbon dosed" which sort of seems good in a fishless reef tank.
The Bio-actif appears not to be causing any "problems"? But how would I know with just one tank?
Tropic Marin claims it can cause electronic salinity checkers to read incorrectly when first mixed, my Hanna checker does not seem to show much change over time. I run at 35 ppt.
I run a big bag of activated charcoal and two bags of the small chemi-pure blue nano.
No fish, but I do dose Red Sea AB+ and spot feed the frags Reef Roids on occasion.
Replaced the filter sock with a filter cylinder so I change the filter media a lot. Main export method.
Water changes about once a month. All soft corals except for the Hammer.
Have played with feeding micro planed frozen shrimp; trying to get the Hammer to eat something "big".
Little Shop of Horrors style.
-Big Mistake
