Bluephish13
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Any one else hear about coralife salt being discontinued or halted for a formula tweak? I was in ARC today looking to reup on my coralife salt and found out they can't get it any more.
No more coralife salt?
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AmherstReef
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Randy mentioned something about that a few weeks ago , his suggestion for a replacement was Oceanic which is all they use. I have been thinking about switching anyway, maybe now is the time.
teamdulski
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Central Pet owns Oceanic, Kent and Coralife. I would bet they are all close to each other. I have always preferred Oceanic.
Gary Majchrzak
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how does price of Oceanic and Coralife salt compare?
Are they doing away with Pontiac and retaining Cadillac?
Lukes_Reef
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On a 200g mix box/bucket Oceanic is about $6 more.
FWIW...it looks like foster&smith still have Coralife in stock
Gary Majchrzak
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Bluephish13
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i prefer coralife over oceanic i get a lot of residue in the bottom of my oceanic mixing can. I also always had a bad dusting of brown algae using oceanic and it disappeared after switching to coralife. Maybe unrelated but was enough for me to stay with coralife. lol probably the same formula
Tom your the first person i thought of when i found out.
FWIW be careful buying the last supplies they also said the last batch they had was all whacked out.
Tom your the first person i thought of when i found out.
FWIW be careful buying the last supplies they also said the last batch they had was all whacked out.
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Coral Life: 510cal,9alk, 1380mag
Oceanic: 580 calcium, 8.5 alk 1650 mag
Reef Crystals: 490 calcium, 13alk, 1440 mag
Instant Ocean : 400 calcium, 11 alk, 1350mag
Don't like that high magnesium in Oceanic at all.
Could adjust Reef Crystals higher alk effect by dosiing less baked baking soda; maybe. Still a hassle testing and resetting doses.
Could adjust calcium to demand by boosting calcium chloride dose if I used Instant Ocean. I do like the organics in Coral Life and Reef Crystals though as a hedge against metal contamination and IO has none for better or worse.
I've never been a fan of changing salt mixes ,there can be many variables in major minor and trace elements and contaminants . I've had good luck with Coral Life through hundreds of buckets and hate to change but I'll figure it out slowly and carefully. I intend to stick with a major brand. The hype around the high price point stuff doesn't inspire me.
teamdulski
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The Oceanic segment has been pretty much gutted as well.
AmherstReef
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I'm down to my last bag of Coralife Salt so I need to decide on a replacement soon. Considering I have trouble with low alk maybe I should stay away from Oceanic.
der_wille_zur_macht
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There are brands of salt besides IO? :lol:
Gary Majchrzak
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alkalinity is definitely the easiest and cheapest thing to boost. Go get yourself some Arm & Hammer baking soda.
S2minute
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AmherstReef
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That's what I am using to boost alk now. Other than that I have been happy with Coralife. What brand do you use Gary?
teamdulski
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I just called the Central Pet District manager for our area, I asked her a bunch of questions regarding all of this, she is going to try and get back to me by the end of the day. I'll post back when I get some concrete information.
AmherstReef
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Thanks, it would be nice to know something concrete
der_wille_zur_macht
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I'm an IO fan if anything. It is cheap and effective and very popular which means it is easy to get and inventory is fresh. I don't generally see the point in paying more for salt with specific parameters since it is usually cheaper to supplement IO than to pay more for a different brand. IO was the first salt I ever used because it was all the LFS had back then and I have stuck with it pretty much since except for some experiments here and there. Which raises Tom's excellent point. Consistency is probably more important than which brand you pick. I do not envy having to switch brands and rediscover from scratch the impact it has on dosing rates, etc.
