I have been using Seachem Reef salt for over a yr and half or so and lately I am not to happy with it due to leaving some brown residue in the container.. I am down with my last bag and wanted to know what SALT you use and how do you like it?.. Thanks for the info..
What salt do you use?
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RC here.
FWIW I've noticed all salts leave that residue at one time or another. IME the only one that hasn't was Gary's "Get Tanked Aquarium" salt. I believe the residue is from something that enters the mix through the machines that mix it. All Gary's salt is hand mixed, which leads to the expense ;)
FWIW I've noticed all salts leave that residue at one time or another. IME the only one that hasn't was Gary's "Get Tanked Aquarium" salt. I believe the residue is from something that enters the mix through the machines that mix it. All Gary's salt is hand mixed, which leads to the expense ;)
i use the regular tropic marin. it's all we've ever used at the store, too, for years. we also sell seachem, and have some customers loyal to it, but by far we sell a lot more tropic. have several large system customers buying it in the 300g bags from us.
DCG1286
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Brightwells NeoMarine on my 120 ... switched over from RC ... had been using RC (Reef) and IO (F/O) for 15 years ... as well as a couple tanks with Red Sea and Red Sea Coral Pro for almost 12.
roshi719
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I have been using Brightwells neomarine for the last month or so now. I like it very much exept the Magnesium mixes a little low for my tastes. It mixes up to about 1280 for me and I like to keep mine at about 1400 - 1450. Before that I had been using Seachem. I think about every salt except for the High end big money mixes have a little bit of residue. I delieve it comes from impurities in the magnesium salts that they use. I know Chris Brightwell uses a very high quality Magnesium source in order to minimize the residue.
ReeferRob
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I was gonna say the same exact thing. BW leaves a black residue and RC is brown. Every 200 gallons or so I mix in my 55 blue barrels has a brown film at the bottom that I clean out. I use RC.
Been hearing good things on ESV lately.
I use RC on my nano and Reefer's Best (by KZ) on my 120 for the ZEOvit system. It mixes up with high potassium and low alk to fit the desired levels of ZEO. Never had a problem with the RC, though.
RC but the new stuff the numbers are so high that I might mix it with IO and also see if a cut back in the vitamins that they add to RC makes a difference, since Randy at RC does not use RC just for that reason, he might know something we do not.
El Camaron
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i am using tropic Marin pro but i got a really good deal on IO so i am switching to it, since i am dosing it wont affect me much, already did the first change and corals seem happy plus its way cheaper.
I just switched from Seachem Reef Salt to Reef Crystals, time will tell.
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