is this salt good?

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kkil4life

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any ideas on this salt?
http://www.waterzoo.co.za/mariscience-marinium-reef-sea-salt-p-81.html

To give you the composition
MAIN COMPOSITION: (units in part per million or ppm)

Chloride............................................ 1.90 x 10^4
Sodium..............................................1.05 x 10^4
Magnesium....................................... 1.41 x 10^3
Sulfur................................................ 8.85 x 10^2
Calcium............................................. 4.20 x 10^2
Potassium......................................... 3.80 x 10^2
Bromine............................................ 6.50 x 10^1
Boron................................................ 8.10 x 10^0
Strontium...........................................4.60 x 10^0
Fluorine............................................1.30 x 10^0
Lithium..............................................1.80 x 10^-1
Rubidium...........................................1.30 x 10^-1
Iodine................................................6.02 x 10^-2
Barium...............................................3.30 x 10^-2
Aluminium..........................................1.03 x 10^-2
Iron....................................................1.10 x 10^-2
Molybdenum......................................1.05 x 10^-2
Zinc....................................................1.00 x 10^-2
Manganese........................................2.10 x 10^-3
Vanadium...........................................2.75 x 10^-3
Cobalt.................................................4.65 x 10^-4
And other trace elements....


I've been using the salt and it dissolves almost immediately and clears up almost instantly.
But for some reason I've been having problems, I think it could be because my tank is still not mature
so just want to know if the numbers are good.
its approximately $40 for 20kgs bucket
sera salt cost approx $68
IO costs about $68 as well.
Please let me know if the numbers are good and I should ocntinue using this or I need to switch.
 
Seems close enough to the other major salt brands. Doesn't stand out in either a good way or bad way really. If your tank looks good, why change?
 
It might be okay, but it's hard to tell about such products. What kind of problems has the tank been having?
 
I changed from instant ocean to this marinium salt.
The guys I but it from maintain the public aquariums here (or atleast they say so), and they say they use this salt.
The salt is the finest I've seen so far, I mean each bag just flows like normal table salt and does not clump.
It dissolves almost immediately, gives me good levels of calcium, alk and ph, and it leave the water clear seconds after mixing.

but, heres the problem, I was using instant ocean for about 2 months since I started the tank, then suddenly I have issues with nitrates, then algae, then phosphates, then cyno n diatoms, and corals not opening up fully. I never had these problems with IO.
Either my system is starting to mature and its co-incidence that I changed salt at the wrong time, or theres something wrong with the salt.
Infact I switched to a brand of salt HB (just used ONE 2 KG bag) and suddenly my goniopora starts opening up better, but my leather and zoos still are not great.

Well, I just had to move my tank this saturday, n the only salt I could find was IO, so I got 20kg of IO for right now, but once I'm done with the bucket, I don't want to go on and make the same mistake incase this salt is not good.
 
I would check some freshly-mixed saltwater for phosphate and nitrate, but it's fairly common to have such problems crop up after a tank has been running for a few months. An ammonia test might be interesting, too. Most or all salt products have some ammonia, but this one might have more than average.
 
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