salt mix

[july865]

i know its been a while, since we have seen a "what salt you are using" thread, but i am re-evaluating my salt mix.
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currently i am using coralife scientific grade. have been for sometime. recently i ran across a fellow reefer who is using tropic marin. he wasnt pushing the issue, but asked me to do some research and see for myself
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i can remember reading on RC a very good article about reef salt from R.Farley, but cant find it. hitting the search button on here is a crap shoot at best. (i know why... thanks).
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soooo.. what are you using??

 

[afelder]

Instant Ocean

 

[D-Rod]

Reef Crystals

 

[Charles99]

Ocean Pure Pro!

 

[JenDub]

If your salt works-don't switch!

 

[ScallopKing]

Tropic Marin.

 

[orlenz]

Ocean Pure Pro

 

[bassnman11]

Ocean Pure, regular

 

[IsaaX]

Ocean Pure Pro

 

[Captain Quirk]

IO.

BTW, what do people do to stop the salt from caking? I was thinking of putting some rice in a media bag and putting it in the bucket. Rice (evidently) is a good poor mans dessicant...

???

 

[codybug]

Tropic Marin pro reef

 

[mikeatjac]

I am using Seachem Reef but you made a huge mistake leaving IO out of the poll.

 

[bergzy]

natural salt water!

gotta be the monkey in the wrench sometime! wait a sec...that doesnt even make sense!!!

 

[gho]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8015948#post8015948 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kernelangus
IO.

BTW, what do people do to stop the salt from caking? I was thinking of putting some rice in a media bag and putting it in the bucket. Rice (evidently) is a good poor mans dessicant...

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Mine doesn't cake. What I do is transfer some into a smaller container (easier for me to open), and cap off the original bucket. I only open the original when I need to refill the smaller one. I keep both of them stored in a dry area (in my garage away from the tank).

 

[gho]

Is this poll missing IO? I use IO.

 

[DRC69]

IO and Oceanic mix.
But most of the time IO.

 

[ScotchMaster]

Tropic marin for me

 

[Frankysreef]

my vote goes to ocean pure pro... Best salt I have ever used... Hated seachem-- too chalky

 

[july865]

shall we keep going??? so far tropic marin 14 -5 from seachem. no one liked the others. IO gets 3 for write in's. 1 write in for NSW.
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now, if i do switch salts, how does one go about doing so?
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i am no scientist, but as far as salt is conserned. tropic marin is a few more $$ than the rest. is there a reason why? just like a BMW is more $$ than a Ford. better quaility??