Good brand?

Red Sea all the way! A little more pricey but alot better than I/O IMO!

 

What about Red Sea do you like better than Instant Ocean?

 

Whenever i use d I/o in my tank, things seemed to close up, lose color and well, DIE. I first set my tank up with Red Sea, all my "First" corals did AWESOME! Tripled in size (they were all softies) and had colors like fireworks. Then i heard that I/O is supposedly the best. So i bought a 50gallon bag. Then everything went downhill. I My Xenia died. leather stopped extending in the AM....and zoas just turned brown. I now switched back and my leather has tripled in size. And my Zoas are making a comeback.


Maybe it was just a bad batch, or something else. But the people in my local reef club, and a member who is near me, swear by Red Sea and i do too. Plus, my local petco sells 60 gallon bags for 16 bux, cause they stopped carrying it and never updated prices with inflation XD

 

I use the tropic marin pro reef salt. I have it in use on 4 tanks and always great results and crystal clear water, they claim its nearly impossible to distinguish between it and natural seawater.

Tropic Marin

 

Thanks for the info! I might try to test some salts myself, now that tangster mentions it. I will do two separate tests, and post the results after I'm done if anyone is interested!

 

My salt out of the box reads
400 425 Calcium
DKH of 10
ph 8.2
Magnesium of 1450 ppm

Close is good enough for me ..

 

I just recently switched from I/o reef crystals to Red Sea Coral pro.

 

Humm! do you mind telling us what kind is that you use?!?
I use Coralife and so far so good, but I am always open for suggestions!

 

Yes, what salt is that. sounds like a good one.

 

Tangster uses "Tangster Brand Salt"