Brightwell Salt.
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stratos21ss
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I have been using BW for nine weeks or so..tank is 100% transitioned now. I was using RC for about 2 months before that and I had good results with RC. I used to use SCRS and the boron alk issues were a pain with the zeo systems I have been running. I've also used TMP and I liked it a lot because it was concentrated and mixed great.
I am finding that BW is most like the TMP - It's concentrated (very small particle size and just has a good quality look to it) - doesn't take as many cups to get sg target and like TMP, it mixes fast/clean.
I switched to it because I also run the NeoZeo system. My alk has come down from mid 9's w/ RC to 8.6 with BW..it looks like it is going to hold at 8.6 which after all the low alk issues I have been through with Ultralith/SCRS is a huge relief.
I am very happy with it thus far and so is my tank.
stratos21ss
Premium Member
This is what I get with fresh mixed. I am into 2nd bucket..gets same numbers as first. Holds my NeoZeo tank at 8.6dKH thus far:
@1.025 (calibrated w/ Fauna Marin ref. fluid and Pinpoint 53.0mS fluid)
Ca 420 Salifert
dKH 11 Salifert
Mg 1250 Elos
K ~380 -> ~400 Fauna Marin
Sr 4 - 10 Salifert
Tank is 95% SPS
@1.025 (calibrated w/ Fauna Marin ref. fluid and Pinpoint 53.0mS fluid)
Ca 420 Salifert
dKH 11 Salifert
Mg 1250 Elos
K ~380 -> ~400 Fauna Marin
Sr 4 - 10 Salifert
Tank is 95% SPS
stratos21ss
Premium Member
Yeah, tank is running 8.6 and change water is 11.
stratos21ss
Premium Member
no lol
stratos21ss
Premium Member
Yeah that's correct. In the mixing container before usage it tests at 11dkH.
Billybeau1
Premium Member
I wouldn't steer anybody wrong, egg. That's what I got. 
which was my whole point in the "other" salt thread (maybe it was this one several pages ago lol). No one seems to be taking uptake into consideration with these salts. A 7.5dKH salt mix in a 95% SPS tanks is going to = chronically low alk without dosing.
High dKH salt isn't going to give most sps tanks high alk.
I don't think this thread is about consumption rates. Just wether or not the manufacturer's claims are accurate. There is nothing inherently wrong with a slat mix carrying 11dkh. I think most folks understand and account for uptake in their alkalinity levels.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15643449#post15643449 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Boomer
. A 7.5dKH salt mix in a 95% SPS tanks is going to = chronically low alk without dosing
How could that be, NSW is not that high ?
What I meant (see what I originally quoted) is the expectation that using a 7.5dKH salt will give you a tank with 7.5dKH. hence the "I use zeovit and I dont want high alk so I cant use instant ocean". Hence the "you do changes with 11dKH salt and your alk is 8.5dkH? what gives" At the consumption rate of a thriving 95% SPS tank 7.5dKH salt will likely result in 5dKH within a few days and dropping fast. This whole salt must be consistant is nonsense in a closed system. Our systems arent consistant like the ocean. Unmanipulated they will go out of wack within days so why is this consistancy of salt being so overstated. If one batch is 8 dKH and the next is 10dKH that means NOTHING to an SPS tank except slightly less work for the reactor or dosing pumps for a day or two. It sure as heck aint going to be the difference between stable and unstable parameters or high alk or low alk like SOME people seem to expect. If you keep your dKH at say 7dKH doing typical 10-30% water changes with 7dkH or 11 dKH is here nor there in the overall scheme of keeping consistancy. The difference wont even be noticeable in a heavily stocked SPS tank that requires lots of daily supplementation to keep parameters from nose diving. this might be important in a new tank or one that gets by with just kalk dripping but come now, anybody using tripple digit ml of calcium and alk daily isn't relying on salt to do much of anything in the way of stability.
