Corallife Salt anyone use it?

[eyebedam]

Well I had about a half a bag of RC & a 1/4 of a bag of IO I mixed those together with 1 full bag of the coralife to make this next batch of water. It seemed to mix really clear & pretty quick. I'm still gonna let it mix till tomorrow night before I do another water change.

 

[lotsoftats]

I'm with Bill...coralife been using it a little over a year now....no complaints

 

[NeveSSL]

I switched to Coralife. The last batch of Oceanic I got had a very high dkh reading - I stopped at 17 drops and the test was still blue. I just picked up a 150 gallon bucket at Petsmart for $38. The shirt I got in the bucket had their logo and pictures of about 10 different blennies on the back.

Which one did you get it for $38 at? I think its usually like $55 or $60 when I've seen it.

Or was it on sale? For that price, I'd be all over it!

Brandon

 

[rbond007]

Just picked me up a bucket of it also gonna try it out

 

[eyebedam]

Which one did you get it for $38 at? I think its usually like $55 or $60 when I've seen it.

Or was it on sale? For that price, I'd be all over it!

Brandon

It's the bucket & it's on sale. 38.99 it should stay on sale till Feb 22. You may or may not get a free shirt in the bucket though mine was missing the shirt.

 

[NeveSSL]

SWEET! Gonna have to pick one of those up today.

Thanks!

Brandon

 

[andywe]

I saw it at Petsmart today for the 38 buck price.

 

[farbase]

Been using it for 10 years and never had a problem and I have a WHOLE bunch of cool shirts. They used to be really nice T-shirts with their logo on the front and picture on the back. Now they are a little cheaper quality and only the pictures on the back. Still a cool shirt though............

 

[eyebedam]

I may buy a couple more buckets before they go off sale. It mixed really clear & clean. No residue left over either. I'll give it a few days to see how my corals like it. Not a bad deal for 38.00.

 

[NeveSSL]

Sweet... I forgot about this but was able to find it. Check out this study:

http://reefsaltanalysis.googlepages.com/AWT_Salt_Analysis_0208.pdf

I think its a good comparison of salts, personally.

Brandon

 

[eyebedam]

I haven't seen that chart in quite sometime Brandon. Thanks for posting it.

 

[andywe]

I always find that chart interesting and always come back to the same conclusion. Although it is excellent data, it is incomplete. The picture is not clearly painted as a true comparison because no single parameter was used as a control...and the one I prefer is what we all mix to, which is salinity. What are the readings of each at 1.025 or 1.026? The values and concentrations of elements will change, and ION masking results will be different. If it was done by control point the study would really show how the salts stack up against eachother.

Again, excellent data showing what each is out of the box, however no control point correlated between them...:-(

 

[rcmike]

I was thinking the same thing. I just skimmed over it but it appears they mixed it according to weight. I don't know of anybody who mixes their salt by weight.

 

[MVlk]

Wow, Lots of purdy charts. I agree with Andy. The way they tested means little to me. If all the salts had the exact same mixing ratios to get to the same final salinity it would be great. It is a shame they did not take a different approach as it could have been even more useful.

I'll stick with my salt choice method. See what my fellow reefers are using successfully.

 

[poolkeeper1]

Pick one out If It works stick with It, If not keep trying until you find one that suites your needs. That's the ticket.
Bill

 

[NeveSSL]

Mixing by weight WAS the control, Andy.

Personally, I think this makes the data more useful. I think it also makes for a good comparison of the salts, even if those aren't numbers you should necessarily expect when you mix to whatever salinity you choose.

Brandon

 

[andywe]

Mixing by weight WAS the control, Andy.

Personally, I think this makes the data more useful. I think it also makes for a good comparison of the salts, even if those aren't numbers you should necessarily expect when you mix to whatever salinity you choose.

Brandon

I stand corrected Brandon SO let me rephrase..they used a mostly useless and benign control rather than one that would provide data in the most meaningful presentation. Ever do scorecards and service analysis (now that you are a puter boy)?

Now, it is excellent data to have,..I jsut think the data points are not very useful in the decision for what salt to purchase based off of the msot common criteria we use as hobbyists. Jsut my opninion.

I did notics that the COrallife and Oceanic salts were very close in stats too, with coralife taking some small gains in areas and oceanic the others. If I decide to switch from Oceanic, Coralife may very well be the next one I try.

IO and RC suck for reefs (imo only, IO is in fact a good salt for FOWLR imo) and any cost savings on the salt was eaten up in the supplements I had to add to get it to proper paramters.

 

[NeveSSL]

I agree whole-heartedly, it is NOT good data for using alone to make decisions on buying salt. However, I do think it provides a good base for comparison between the brands and what they have to offer.

And I noticed the close results of the Oceanic and Coralife, too.

I'm fairly positive I'm going back to Coralife and I'm gonna stay.

Brandon

 

[eyebedam]

Oceanic & Coralife are owned by the same parent company I believe, I could almost swear I've read that somewhere. Also I'm no super huge fan of IO or RC but they have reformulated there salt mixes & the numbers are better on the new mix compared to tha
salt used for that particular study.

As far as Coralife I noticed the polyps on my green toadstools showed more polyp extensions tonight after I did my waterchange earlier today. It's the best they've looked since I lost almost all my corals with the water incident.

Brandon- just curious if your bucket had a shirt in it.

 

[poolkeeper1]

FYI, You can get Coralife In a 300gal box mix also, Sean at Ebayfish will get It for you for a pretty good price too. JTILYK
Bill