RedSea salt....

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duec22

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Anyone use this salt? I need to get a new bag of salt today. I've been useing IO and want to make a change. I've been battling nusance algea for a while now while my Nirate/Nitrate test zero, and I'm running Rowa... Salt is one of the few things I've ever played with on my tank...been useing IO from day one, but am getting tiered of the high starting alk and low calcium levels.
I was thinking Red Sea due to the prelim results of the salt study. I don't want to use RC because it's manuf. by same company as IO and normal alk levels are higher than I want to use..don't want to use SeaChem due to the borate levels.....
The other salt I was considering was Oceanic....but other opinons are welcome...
 
i use both oi and red sea in 2 differnt tanks they usually test the same except the mag in the red sea tank is higher but other than that for me there isnt much difference rea sea mixes better i think
 
When I switched to Oceanic from IO I was nothing short of thoroughly impressed. Usually I would test a pH of fresh mixed at 8.1-8.2, depending on how well you aerate it im sure. Follow the waterchange with a dose of buff and prepare to be very happy :)

-Justin
 
I think I will give Oceanic a try. I just called O-street and they said they have it in stock...and it's on the way home...
 
My main beef with Oceanic is the low Alk and some inconsistencies from batch to batch. I once had a batch which had about ~600ppm Calcium and 7dKH Alk.

I've been considering moving back to "Instant Oceanic" (a 50/50 home made blend of IO and Oceanic :)). Has the best of both worlds.
 
I made up a small batch last night and tested it after it mixed for a couple of hours. 7.5 dKH...430cal at a salinity of 1.0255. Yeah a tad low on alk... I like to run my alk at about 9.5, so this combo works much better for me. With IO the fresh makeup alk was about 11dKH, and it really sucked because every time I would do a watch change I would give all my SPS an alkalinity shock...I can adjust the alk for the oceanic with some 2-pt. I hope the oceanic has become more consistant since you saw the out of wack batch.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8340938#post8340938 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by duec22
I think I will give Oceanic a try. I just called O-street and they said they have it in stock...and it's on the way home...
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Hold the phone. You said you wouldn't use RC, cause the same company as IO. Guess what? So is Oceanic :lol:
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8345091#post8345091 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GreshamH
Hold the phone. You said you wouldn't use RC, cause the same company as IO. Guess what? So is Oceanic :lol:
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You're kidding...How many salts do they put out? At least they aren't the same formula, and I think it will be much better for my corals if I have to adj the alk levels of the new SW up to meet the needs of the tank rather than either shoking my corals or bringing the whole tank up to a dKH of 11.
 
The parent company has been on abuying spree for several years now....Oceanic...All Glass... IO/RC.....Coarlife...ESU...Kent....etc etc. It seems to be a battle between them (Central Pets) and Marineland (just bought Tetra) now, for how owns the most companies :D
 
hehe..
You know one thing I really liked about the container of Oceanic I picked up was the container it came in. Kind of like a big watter bottle with a screw cap lid... I'm always leaving the bags out and by the time I realize it the salt is hard as a rock and I can never get it to fully dissolve again... I think the screw cap will save me from throwing away a lot of salt in the future...
 
Well I went to do that waterchange last night..checked the temp and it was a couple drgrees low so I threw in my old heater and started to syphon out my tank...about two minutes into it I see sparks coming from the new SW and then the heater exploded sending water and glass everywhere...what a pain in the but at 10pm....
 
For what it's worth...

I was using instant ocean at first, then switched to reef crystals (after the supposed salt study from MACNA said it was the best). I never saw any ill effects from the switch. Algea seems to be less of a problem, though I cannot say conclusively that it is a direct result of switching salts.

-P
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8350434#post8350434 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reefugee
David -

Did you have the heater plugged in when you threw it into the water? I made that mistake once. :P

Minh
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No, I made that mistake in my first couple months of the hobby. I was tring to save a flame angel..I took my heater out of the tank let it sit for a minute or two (not thinking) and then put it in the bucket with the fish and cracked the glass.
This time the heater was sitting in a bucket with water for a couple of weeks (probably fully sumerged and unplugged). I think water got into the heater and when I placed it into the new SW and pluged it in...it was a ticking time bomb. I'm just glad that none of the glass shrapnel came at me..I was only two feet away, and it souned like a bomb... Thank goodness my neighbors aren't very friendly..so no one came out to see what happened...but man did the aprt. stink for a couple of hours...smelled like burnt plasic.
 
wow.. good that you came out of the explosion okay..

i have been using oceanic and its been working fine for me for my tanks though i just got a batch of RC and have gradually been shifting over to see how that goes.. but yeah, didn't know they were all made by the same folks anyway..

by the way, does anyone have the link for the salt study? i think i remember seeing it before but can't find it now..
 
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