Which salt? Help me make up my mind

[Cliff717]

Ok so I m about to purchase salt for the year and I m down to two options.
1) Aquaforest reef salt $69 box
2) h2oceans $75 a pail
What do u guys think is the better salt?

 

[draj]

I have no experience with either of those... but i am curious to why you've narrowed it down to those two?

 

[Cliff717]

well mainly because they both fit into my budget LOL and also because I've heard good things about both brands. I am currently using reef crystals but I am finding it extremely low on magnesium. I am dosing over 120 mills a day of magnesium and I am hoping that switching to assault that has a higher magnesium content may alleviate this issue

 

[MaiReef]

I just started with the AF Reef. It mixes more quickly, but that is all I can say over IO Reef Crystals at this point.

 

[120reefkeeper]

;)I've been an Aquaforest user for the past seven months. I use the probiotic salt , the np pro, pro bio s, components+ 1,2,3. I also use the additives Amino mix,Build,Vitality,Energy.

IMHO the entire program along with the salts are simply top shelf. Very good results!

I've had some really great success growing coral. ;)

 

[Kungpaoshizi]

Red sea blue bucket.

 

[skim]

I would go with the AF just because it is Fully Synthetic, so it should have a much purer base to it.

 

[draj]

personally, i wanna try hw-marinemix

http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/hw-marinemix-reefer-salt-mix.html

 

[sk8elenex92]

Ive been using seachems salinity. I cant complain. It is a synthetic salt as well and the last 6 buckets had consistent parameters. I have been seeing a lot of complaints on AF lately.

 

[skim]

Hey if I lived in the States I would have boxes of the HW salt. Can't get it in Canada. That Salt was designed right from the go to be of Laboratory standard. I also use Salinity and like it very much 6.5 to 7 cups makes me about 15 gal. how many can say the same, that are not using Salinity. I do not even check anymore I just add it and go. But you do have to mix it properly and many have a hard time with that so they tend not to like it or say the specs are way off.

 

[wattson]

Red Sea Coral Pro,,black bucket...I used to use IORC but since changing ,,Ill never look back

 

[thirdchild]

D2D H2Ocean :) Only salt I've used. For my nano, my parameters stay good with WC alone, no dosing.