So had some extra $ in my pocket when I went to Elite Today...
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Not sold on Salinity. I did frequent water changes, like Rocky didn't dose as much thinking that I wouldn't need to, wrong about that. Had a dirty hard crust form in my mixing container which is a pain in the *** to clean because it's a small mouthed container. The crust is finally breaking apart and falling into my new salt mix so I have to go drain my container and clean it out again.
I switched to IO after reading some stuff by Randy Holmes Farley and the other helpers in the chemistry forum on RC. It's what they use and dosed with 2 part, my coraline exploded and my growth is much, much better.
I switched to IO after reading some stuff by Randy Holmes Farley and the other helpers in the chemistry forum on RC. It's what they use and dosed with 2 part, my coraline exploded and my growth is much, much better.
One of the biggest differences I saw wasn't so much on regular dosing, although PH seems much higher and more stable, but I don't have to dose like crazy on my newly mixed water to get the parameters to target levels.
Most other "Reef" salts I'd tried still took a lot of testing and adjustment before even using the water. They all either had high CA and low PH/Alk, or fair Alk levels and low CA. Very few had decent Magnesium levels.
Salinity on the other hand is pretty dead on for what I'm targeting parameter wise, with out much tinkering on my end, and also much more balanced.
The hard dirty crust is strange, I've only ever had a slight white dustiness on the first couple batches I mixed when using warm water. After switching to cold water for mixing, it's always nice and clear with no residue at all.
I'm two buckets in now on Salinity, and the corals have never looked better.
Most other "Reef" salts I'd tried still took a lot of testing and adjustment before even using the water. They all either had high CA and low PH/Alk, or fair Alk levels and low CA. Very few had decent Magnesium levels.
Salinity on the other hand is pretty dead on for what I'm targeting parameter wise, with out much tinkering on my end, and also much more balanced.
The hard dirty crust is strange, I've only ever had a slight white dustiness on the first couple batches I mixed when using warm water. After switching to cold water for mixing, it's always nice and clear with no residue at all.
I'm two buckets in now on Salinity, and the corals have never looked better.
I don't know, as I posted in my previous thread about salinity my milis bleached. A search on RC found some other people with SPS problems after changing over to Salinity. Might just be a coincidence. The thing that aggravated me most is the hard crust and brown toothpaste gunk all over my mixing container. People said it's normal but I've been doing water changes with different salts for 8 years and I've never experienced anything this bad. Don't like the salt but the bucket is awesome for my bags of IO!