What salt

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mix do you guys use? I've been using IO for over 20 years. I want to be more anal with the new tank and have been thinking of jumping to either Red Sea Coral Pro or Reef Crystals. Red Sea allows batch readings over the web now. I'm kind of leaning that way.
 
I've been using IO as well and noticed my mag levels are 1500 after water changes. I'm thinking of using something else to-following along.
 
+1, using IO now, but will use up my bucket getting rock ready for the new tank, so checking out others as well.
 
I use reef crystals, been checking occasionall and all levels are good. But just did water changes gonna try to check daily for a week to see how levels do

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I used red sea coral pro for 3 years with zero issues, it mixed so much faster (clear within 20 minutes) and cleaner than IO or RC. I recently switched over to the red sea blue bucket since I didn't see a need for the elevated Alk levels since I run a CaRX on my 180 and Kalk on my frag system. RSCP was nice to use when I dosed 2 part.
 
Id say whatever you choose make sure your LFS carries it as well.... There's been times I've run out of salt when I was running certain brands that my LFS didn't sell. I don't like mixing salts because you never quite know what levels you're mixing up. Now I stick with reef crystals because I can order it online super cheap and the local stores sell it in case I forget to reorder or need a large batch last minute.


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Red sea blue bucket. One of the requirements for Zeovit is maintaining natural seawater levels.

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Reef Crystals. A friend of Acer and I uses RC but awhile back got a batch that mixed up with very low alkalinity and and he had some major tank issues and lost coral before figuring out what happened. Since then I have been thinking about switching myself.
 
Reef Crystals. A friend of Acer and I uses RC but awhile back got a batch that mixed up with very low alkalinity and and he had some major tank issues and lost coral before figuring out what happened. Since then I have been thinking about switching myself.



Yea I've had the same issue with RC testing low on Alk, I haven't switch yet because you can get it so cheap when it goes on sale, I just picked a 5 gal bucket up a few weeks ago for $26, when this changes or it causes me some serious issues I'll go back to seachem, I've never experienced any issues with the seachem and its relatively cheap as well


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It would be nice to find a local lfs that carried some other salts for options, but hard to beat price of RC

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I used red sea coral pro for 3 years with zero issues, it mixed so much faster (clear within 20 minutes) and cleaner than IO or RC. I recently switched over to the red sea blue bucket since I didn't see a need for the elevated Alk levels since I run a CaRX on my 180 and Kalk on my frag system. RSCP was nice to use when I dosed 2 part.
+1 on Red Sea Coral Pro. Had major algae until I made the switch from Reef Crystals, corals were much happy also.

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Just ran down and check the Alk on a fresh batch of IORC and it was 7.0 dkh, mine always seems low has anyone else noticed this and I kinda wish it wasn't so cheap lol


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What salt

IO RC
Alk 7.0dkh
Cal 475
Mag 1365
Sal 1.025 cal. ref
Salifert test kits

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Thinking of trying the seacham salt, a n yine have experience with it

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what was the PH? My IO has lower Alk ( 7.2) and lower PH (7.8) than many other brands. Which is why I am thinking about changing.
 
PH could be higher. I would love to have my alk at 8. Right now mine is around 10.3 on it's way down. Ca 480, PH 8.4.
 
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