What brand do you use?

[oahureefer]

Hey guys,
I was just curious what brand of chemicals everyone uses and which chemicals you dose your Reef tank with.

I am getting back into the game after taking about 12 yrs off. Starting a nano Reef (36G) for my 18 month old daughter but it's been so long I feel like a newbie again.

 

[GimpyFin]

I use Kent Marine reef salt for my water and use Kent Marine Tech CB for calcium/alk buffer (Mostly just the alk portion because Kent salt has high calcium to begin with.) I've used Red Sea reef energy on occassion, but I don't really dose anything else regularly except food. (Reef nutrition's liquid foods like Oyster feast are pretty good.)

 

[billdogg]

I use Instant Ocean and IO Reef Crystals for salt. I buy Bulk Ca and Alk supplement from BRS in 5g buckets. I also get my carbon and GFO there. Test kits are all Salifert.

 

[RA]

I use Mrs. Wages pickling lime in my ATO

 

[AlSimmons]

I usually use Coralife salt, but I traded in some frags at the LFS the other day and got a couple bags of Reef Crystals. I'll be using this for the next 6 months or so. I get my Kalkwasser from BRS and if I ever need to bump up my Alkalinty or Magnesium I just use Baking Soda & Epsom Salts. I think I have a small container of Kent Turbo Calcium around here somewhere too.

 

[gone fishin]

I use Instant Ocean and IO Reef Crystals for salt. I buy Bulk Ca and Alk supplement from BRS in 5g buckets. I also get my carbon and GFO there. Test kits are all Salifert.

same here as well

 

[Sapelo]

Red Sea Pro for salt, BRS for dosing and reactor media, Red Sea test kits

 

[BigEZ77]

Reef Crystals for salt but Seachem for almost everything else.

 

[Argo747]

I use HK-Marinemix for salt. BRS for carbon, kalk, and GFO. I also occasionally like to toss in some Chemipure blue.

 

[Ron Reefman]

I use Reef Crystals and IO for salt. I have 4 tanks (mostly sps and lps) and dose a lot so I use Dowflake for Ca, soda ash from a pool supply for alk and Mag Flake and bulk Epsom salt for Mg. It's WAY cheaper and at 6 years into this tank and these chemicals I see no issues.

 

[homer1475]

Reef Crystals for salt, baked baking soda for ALK(way cheaper then buying a chemical), BRS bulk chemicals in 5 gallon pails for everything else.

 

[johnike]

I use Mrs. Wages pickling lime in my ATO

Same here.

 

[finewayne]

Coralife salt, the best

 

[Sk8r]

Salifert tests, Kent supplements, Mrs. Wages Pickling Lime for kalk, Instant Ocean salt.

 

[hkgar]

Don't dose anything you do not test for. <- see that little dot? That means PERIOD

I dos Calcium and Alkalinity. I periodically test for Iodine and Potassium, but have never had to add any.

 

[zsuman101]

hw-marinemix, zeovit reef, esv bi-ionic

 

[emperor187]

Don't dose anything you do not test for. <- see that little dot? That means PERIOD

Pretty good advice there

 

[bundybear1981]

I use Red Sea salt for NSW. I also dose baking soda, magnesium and calcium. I also dose vinegar and run carbon in a dual canister (BRS style).

For test kits I use Red Sea (KH and PO4) and Salifert (MG, CA and nitrates)

 

[keiferd]

I started my 10G nano with Instant Ocean, but plan to ween it of with Coralife slowly. Coralife has always worked good for me.

 

[Moonchild198]

My system

My system

I use Kent Reef Salt for now. I am considering trying red sea coral pro at one point just to see if I notice any difference at all. As far as dosing I just dose with brs magnesium. I have brs calcium, but never need it with kent and kalkwasser in my ato. I have some Kz potassium because I run zeovit, but I haven't needed it yet. I run carbon in a bag in my sump and I haven't noticed it depleting anything yet.