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02-14-2008, 09:36 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
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   |  Whats in your salt? AWT Study on what's really in your salt.
I came across this awhile back, meant to post something about it and forgot. Then it came up the other day, and I just read a post on here asking something that is answered in this study. Its in PDF form, so be prepared. Reef Salt Analysis _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
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02-14-2008, 10:06 AM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Good find there Geek!
I went to a behind the scenes tour at Newport Aquarium and talked with the biologist there and asked her what type of salt they used. She said that they have tired many and found they are not always the same between buckets. Some are taken from the top of the mixing vat and some from the bottom and they are not mixed very good. She also stated that they found Instant Ocean to be the most stable salt they used but they have gone to mixing their own salt now due to cost saving. _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
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02-14-2008, 10:08 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
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From what I gathered on that study, coralife appeared to be right there with the best of them, and better then the supposed best on some of it. | |
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02-14-2008, 10:24 AM
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| | Kole Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 40
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yup, coralife and instant ocean are tied for first place
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02-14-2008, 10:24 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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Have seen earlier versions of this study...but this one seems to pretty up to date.
Does not indicate the wide differences in salt mixes that the link I posted earlier.
But from all there, esp. taking cost into consideration. Am sticking with good old IO.
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02-14-2008, 10:40 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
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Everytime I use IO I get cyano. From that study, IO has the one of the highest levels of phosphates which would explain it. I use to use coralife years ago, and then started using IO since thats all I could get locally and then F&S starting selling it for $30 a bucket. The coralife salt from them is $32 a bucket and it comes with a free tshirt! hahahaha! | |
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02-14-2008, 11:04 AM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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IO Reef Crystals now comes with a free tshirt as well...Just picked up a bucket last week...  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
1 Hawkfish
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1 Kole Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Leather Toadstool
Long Polyp Toadstool
Orange Sunshine Polyps
Montipora
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Frogspawn
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1 Yellow Fin Fairy Wrasse
Cleaner Crew
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Pearly Jawfish
Firefish
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02-14-2008, 12:46 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Miami,Fl
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Nice study! Overall im okay with IOs performance so when I finish the three buckets I have left maybe Ill try the Red sea. _________ 90 gallon tank with center overflows, 44 gallon custom sump/fuge, Tek T5 retrofit 4x54 bulbs, Reef Octopus nw200 protein skimmer, Iwaki WMD40RLXT return pump (changed to panworld 100pxx),Knop c ca reactor, PA light house controller.
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^^ Testing it out! Ill add more param.. later. | |
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02-14-2008, 01:09 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Newtown, PA Age: 20
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Thanks, saved the document. _________ 120 gallon mixed reef, 30 gallon refugium, two 250 watt Phoenix 14K DE metal halides in Lumenarc stealth reflectors, Two 48" T-5's in TEK II reflectors, AquaC EV-120 protein skimmer, Mag Drive 12 return pump, one Hydor Koralia 4
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