Salt Group Order anyone?

[bshumake]

OK. Here's how this will work. Everyone wishing to participate in this group order will need to PM me with their preferred brand (I'm assuming here it's gonna be mostly Oceanic and IO). Once I get a complete list (brand and number pails) I'll forward it to our sponsors so they can work up a price for the salt order. Sound like a plan? I'm assuming this will also break down regionally so we may go all with one sponsor or possibly split the difference. I'll have to figure that one out.
So here we go and yall send me your requests!
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[bshumake]

Sofar I've got the following salts people are interested in:
Instant Ocean
Seachem
Oceanic

 

[Rendos]

I would like to try the new Seachem salt.

 

[just dave]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7333639#post7333639 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rendos
I would like to try the new Seachem salt.

You having some problems with the one you use now?

 

[Rendos]

Nope...just like to see what this one is like. I use Oceanic now...never had a problem...I used IO before that and never had a problem with it either.

Wouldn't life be boring if we never tried new things!?.

 

[just dave]

Never had a problem, well that's the perfect time to make some changes.
Maybe you'll get lucky and have one.

 

[bshumake]

Dave's posts never fail to amuse me. That and Extacy

 

[acro-wrasse]

looks like we let Rendos go first.....if nothing dies, then the Seachem salt might be safe for my tank!!

 

[milkshake]

I've been using the Seachem Reef
salt for 8 months and have had no
problems

 

[swalker]

Let me ask a stupid question. Is one supposed to be better than the others or is it mostly personal preference? I have been using Instant Ocean for a long time now and it seems to be fine butt now you have me questioning, is there something Iââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢m missing?

What up?

Steve Walker

 

[boofer]

IO runs low on both CA and Mag. (one bucket I had was testing at 275 Ca)
Oceanic runs low on Alk, but is very high on Mag and CA.
Seachem uses Borate for a buffer(which theres lots of opinions about it being good) but is lower on CA and Mag than Seachem.
With me its about not having to add lots of stuff to the salt I just made. Im using Oceanic now because Alk is cheap to add, but Im curious about the buffering capabilities of Seachem.

 

[swalker]

Wow! Thanks for the info Boofer. In that case, I think I will stick with my IO.

Thanks
Steve Walker

 

[luckyfish]

I would like to try Morton's.

 

[bshumake]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7339560#post7339560 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by luckyfish
I would like to try Morton's.

Mmmmmm.....tasty.

 

[milkshake]

Since I have been using the Seachem Reef salt, my ph stays
at 8.4 Of course my tank is only a 40gal.-My wife and I top off
with RO (1-2gallons) every other
day. Yet the ph stays at 8.4- I don't add any Alk. I just add Seachem liquid calcium every other day. Everything seems to be happy in the tank. I'm not saying that I prefer or just have to use this brand....I just don't have to add a lot of trace elements.

 

[boofer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7338623#post7338623 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by boofer

Seachem uses Borate for a buffer(which theres lots of opinions about it being good/bad) but is lower on CA and Mag than Seachem.

That should be, the CA and Mag in Seachem is lower than Oceanic

 

[bshumake]

OK, so we're getting a respectable amount of requests here. I would like to try and wrap this up by next Friday so I can let the sponsors work their magic. Thanks everyone and keep 'em coming.

 

[wjhuie]

My dad sells thousands of tons of salt, mag cloride and other chemicals to a lot of public aquariums and commerical aquaculture operations.

 

[bshumake]

Alright everyone. I'll be wraping this up on Wednesday. Please have your request in to me by then and i'll e-mail it to our sponsors. Hopefully I'll have the prices back to yall by the weekend.

 

[bshumake]

Thanks for the responses. I'll send them to our sponsors and we should be hearing from them shortly.
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