bosborn1
In Memoriam
Just been doing some reading and came across this
Get Tanked Aquariums
Your saltwater coral reef connection
Store Brand:
Saltwater Correct
Artificial Sea Salt Mix
About my In store Brand Artificial sea salt:
Magnesium Level--1250 mg/L
Calcium Level-------450 ppm
Borate Level--------1.5 meg/L
Bromide Level------65 mg/L
Specific Gravity-----1.026
Alkalinity------------3.2
pH------------------8.2
As for additives / supplements in any
brand of artificial sea salt mix.
Everybody should be adding their own
Strontium, Iodine, Magnesium Supplement, Calcium Chloride,
Calcium Hydroxide (A.K.A. Kalkwasser) and Borate Supplement,
in order to keep their level from dropping to low
between water changes.
Last but not least.
The 70 major and minor trace elements
found in natural sea water
compared to
artificial sea salt mix.
"There are several artificial sea water formulae,
some of which attempt to duplicate all the
trace elements in natural sea water.
These are impractical because most trace element
weights are beyond the sensitivity of commercial scales".
Does any one actually think that any artificial sea salt manufacturer
is going to have 70 (seventy) individual containers of the trace elements
and weight them out for each batch of salt mix?
The truth be told,
all the major and minor trace elements in artificial sea salt
comes as a by-product or impurity in the different bulk salts that make up
artificial sea salt.
Salt: ( Sodium Chloride )
Ordinary salt (sodium chloride) is one of the main ingredients of artificial sea salts. An important consideration is that most salt available in the UK and elsewhere contains an anti-caking agent made from a stable form of cyanide. The salt is perfectly safe to use in most ways, however in aquaculture it can actually be very toxic. For example: if the salt is dissolved in water and then exposed to UV light, then the cyanide is released into the water in its free form. Obviously this is not a desirable situation.
Therefore all of the salts used in Get Tanked Aquariums Store Brand: Saltwater Correct Artificial Sea Salt formula is free from anti-caking agents and cyanide.
I talked to this guy on the phone and he really seems to know his stuff. The Salt mix comes with a few caviates though...Its hard to mix. I am going to try to do a water change with his salt. I am about fed up with commerical salts. IMO they all have big problems
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2005/12/aafeature1
That link leaves you with a sick to the stomach feeling. To know that despite all of our best efforts NOT A SINGLE commerical salt is of a correct balacne and that they all contain some excessive amount of heavy metal is unsettling. My feeling is that the big salt manufacuters are producing salt for the lowest common denomanator and not for the hobbiest.
Does anyone else here use a custom salt blend? I remember that several hobbiest that live close to a natural tropic body of water use the water right out of the ocean to great sucess. Just trying to hear from some people who have tried "Outside of the Box' thinking when it comes to salt.
Thanks
Scott
Get Tanked Aquariums
Your saltwater coral reef connection
Store Brand:
Saltwater Correct
Artificial Sea Salt Mix
About my In store Brand Artificial sea salt:
Magnesium Level--1250 mg/L
Calcium Level-------450 ppm
Borate Level--------1.5 meg/L
Bromide Level------65 mg/L
Specific Gravity-----1.026
Alkalinity------------3.2
pH------------------8.2
As for additives / supplements in any
brand of artificial sea salt mix.
Everybody should be adding their own
Strontium, Iodine, Magnesium Supplement, Calcium Chloride,
Calcium Hydroxide (A.K.A. Kalkwasser) and Borate Supplement,
in order to keep their level from dropping to low
between water changes.
Last but not least.
The 70 major and minor trace elements
found in natural sea water
compared to
artificial sea salt mix.
"There are several artificial sea water formulae,
some of which attempt to duplicate all the
trace elements in natural sea water.
These are impractical because most trace element
weights are beyond the sensitivity of commercial scales".
Does any one actually think that any artificial sea salt manufacturer
is going to have 70 (seventy) individual containers of the trace elements
and weight them out for each batch of salt mix?
The truth be told,
all the major and minor trace elements in artificial sea salt
comes as a by-product or impurity in the different bulk salts that make up
artificial sea salt.
Salt: ( Sodium Chloride )
Ordinary salt (sodium chloride) is one of the main ingredients of artificial sea salts. An important consideration is that most salt available in the UK and elsewhere contains an anti-caking agent made from a stable form of cyanide. The salt is perfectly safe to use in most ways, however in aquaculture it can actually be very toxic. For example: if the salt is dissolved in water and then exposed to UV light, then the cyanide is released into the water in its free form. Obviously this is not a desirable situation.
Therefore all of the salts used in Get Tanked Aquariums Store Brand: Saltwater Correct Artificial Sea Salt formula is free from anti-caking agents and cyanide.
I talked to this guy on the phone and he really seems to know his stuff. The Salt mix comes with a few caviates though...Its hard to mix. I am going to try to do a water change with his salt. I am about fed up with commerical salts. IMO they all have big problems
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2005/12/aafeature1
That link leaves you with a sick to the stomach feeling. To know that despite all of our best efforts NOT A SINGLE commerical salt is of a correct balacne and that they all contain some excessive amount of heavy metal is unsettling. My feeling is that the big salt manufacuters are producing salt for the lowest common denomanator and not for the hobbiest.
Does anyone else here use a custom salt blend? I remember that several hobbiest that live close to a natural tropic body of water use the water right out of the ocean to great sucess. Just trying to hear from some people who have tried "Outside of the Box' thinking when it comes to salt.
Thanks
Scott
