My nickels worth on this salt
I get a charge out of this claim
Crystal Sea¨ is the number-one selling marinemix worldwide in the combined fields of environmental testing, university research, aquiculture, public aquaria, retail dealers, marine fish wholesalers, and marine hobbyists.
I do not know how to take this comment
marinemix worldwide in the combined fields of environmental testing, university research............Yes, because on upon initial mixing and use it causes the least mortalities rates of the seawater health indicator used by all labs, the survival of sea urchin larvae.
public aquaria, retail dealers, marine fish wholesalers, and marine hobbyists.........No, not even remotely close to IO. As far as and especially public aquariums go yes but that was many, many years ago. You look at all of the worlds largest aquariums that are dealing with 20,000 - 8,000,000 gals of seawater they are IO. The new, just opened, CAS Stienhart Aquarium coral reef display, with live corals, which is 200,000 gals is all IO. 3 of the other largest aquariums in the world, on in Minnesota where I live and the other in Alberta Canada, ~1,000,000 gals and the Georgia Aquarium, the largest period @ 8,000,000 gal, are all using IO. Same for the SeaWorld's, 4 of them, that are million of gals each.
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that both Crystal Sea mixes I tested measured about the same
Billy
That is because they are exactly the same. The only difference is the Bio-Assay has no dechlor in it.
Randy
I have not been to Bob Spellman's website in ages and do not believe he printed what you just showed. That is more or less open mouth and insert foot
About this salt which many do not know.
For many, many years the two #1 salts in our hobby where IO and Forty-Fathoms ( now called Crystal Sea Marinemix). The others were HW Marinemix and Marine Environments. 15 years or so ago all of these have fallen to the side, except IO which has rocketed mostly from just more ads and more money to market it an the same for many of the other "new" salts people use now.i.e, Kent, Coral Life , Red Sea, Reef Crystal, etc..and now even the newer ones, i.e, DD-H2O, Oceanic, Tunze. etc.,
Tom Frakes, an old friend of mine and who knows more about seawater mixes than anybody in the world, who for 30 years was Director of Research and Development and Vice President of Aquarium Systems, the IO and RC people, where he developed these salts, once told me in private many years ago, that analytically speaking he always felt Forty-Fathoms ( Crystal Sea Marinemix) was a better salt than IO.
