I agree. I was leary thinking of changing from Reef Crystals which has work so well for me.
One thing I have decided to do was to restart using Kent Marine Essential Elements every two weeks as I usually do weekly water changes along with Kent Marine Iodide and Strontium and Molybdenum weekly.
I also decided to add Kent Marine Photoplex and Chromoplex along with Zooplex and Microvert every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with one capful of each of the four.
I had previously stopped using the phytoplex and chromoplex and now I have five bubble tip anemones four brain corals, two montioporas, and three gonioporas, and with two palythoa covered rocks.
When I arrive home after a week on vacation and somebody topping off my tank every two days I had an 8.5 pH reading during the day. This was after two weeks without a water change. I then changed the water and dosed on Sunday and Monday with Seachem Reef Buffer and I am back in pH business. I checked the alkalinity before buffering and had a reading of 4.5 meq/L.
Seachem recommends not to go higher than 6.0 meq/L with alklanity when buffering and one dose of Seachem Reef Buffer raises pH by .1 and alkalnity by .5 meq/L.