Has anyone tried this salt?

[compulou]

Big Als has a special on "Crystal Sea Bio-Assay Laboratory Formula Marine Salt" and I need to pick up a couple of buckets of salt and was wondering since Big-Als has a deal on this salt if anyone's tried it before?

Thanks

 

[jeffbrig]

If I'm not mistaken, that was the one that Dr. Shimek said such good things about after his sea urchin larvae study several years ago. A bunch of hobbyists switched salt after seeing his results, and a good number of these had massive unexplained dieoff of their sps colonies. Some of these were very experienced hobbyists with TOTM quality tanks (JB NY, Ivy64, etc.). That's not to say everyone had problems, but there were some who did.

While the cause was unknown, it seemed that problems only arose for people that switched salts on an existing system. New systems that started with this salt had no issues. Because of this, I am a strong advocate of picking one salt brand and sticking with it forever. Why risk it to save a few bucks?

 

[jman77]

"If I'm not mistaken, that was the one that Dr. Shimek said such good things about after his sea urchin larvae study several years ago. A bunch of hobbyists switched salt after seeing his results, and a good number of these had massive unexplained dieoff "

Yup, that's the one