questions about changing salt mixes
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usefulidiot213
Bryan H.
Changing salts can damage your reef. If you don't want to change salts you would want to do it slowly by adding in a little at a time. If you just have some free salt you can just substitute a little in with each water change to use it, but don't do a full water change with brand new salt all at once.
maroun.c
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I did use crystal sea marine mix for a while just because it had a lower KH than a few buckets of reefcrystel that I got which had an alk of 14+ and Crystal sea marine mix gave me the following readings if I remember correctly:
Alk 9-10
Ca 360
Mg 960
So supplementing the Ca and Mg to get them where my tank was ended up more expensive than Reef crystal still I wasn't using it to save money just for its lower alk. Now for a FO then that could be a totally different story. I'm very interested in the testing resuls for ALK MG and Ca of the buckets you get.
Alk 9-10
Ca 360
Mg 960
So supplementing the Ca and Mg to get them where my tank was ended up more expensive than Reef crystal still I wasn't using it to save money just for its lower alk. Now for a FO then that could be a totally different story. I'm very interested in the testing resuls for ALK MG and Ca of the buckets you get.
A copy and paste from the other thread for those that might only read this one...
Crystal Sea isn't my favorite mix, and for reasons that no one ever has understood, when Ron Shimek said folks should switch to it a few years ago, a number of folks switched to it and had troubles. More than expected who switched from IO had a problem, and in some cases severe problems. Folks using it long term were fine.
Normally it makes not a whit of difference when changing salt mixes, but at least then it did, and if I were contemplating making the same switch, I'd be sure I wanted to, and then do it quite slowly.
Personally, I’d just avoid this mix. It seems to have unexplained organic matter in it, for example.
Crystal Sea isn't my favorite mix, and for reasons that no one ever has understood, when Ron Shimek said folks should switch to it a few years ago, a number of folks switched to it and had troubles. More than expected who switched from IO had a problem, and in some cases severe problems. Folks using it long term were fine.
Normally it makes not a whit of difference when changing salt mixes, but at least then it did, and if I were contemplating making the same switch, I'd be sure I wanted to, and then do it quite slowly.
Personally, I’d just avoid this mix. It seems to have unexplained organic matter in it, for example.
luther1200
Premium Member
I would have them send me the right salt I ordered if it was me.
maroun.c
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Randy can you please elaborate more on the problems people had? as for weird reasons I had some spikes in nitrates and phosphates which I never had before as well as some corals going downhill in the same tie I was using that salt and I always thought that it was caused by my dropping alkalinity...
Any threads or info would be great just to compare.
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