Red Sea Coral Pro VS. Tropic Marin Pro

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What salt do you guys prefer for your reef tanks and why????

Red Sea Coral Pro or Tropic Marin Pro

 

[gumbii]

IO...

 

[mkindsfather]

Red sea pro

 

[REEFERDUDE562]

Red sea pro

 

[Fly5150]

I love Alk spikes so I only use pro salt


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[janiners305]

Tropic marin pro hands down

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[M3ace9]

Instant Ocean all day everyday.

 

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We use Red Sea coral pro at the shop and sell to customers. Considering maybe switching to tropic Marin pro. Never used tropic marin or instant ocean. I've had customers switch from I stand ocean to Red Sea pro and noticed visible difference in their tanks after about 2-3 water changes


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[bps619]

Tropic marin pro for sps. RSP has high alk. I'm thinking about switch from tm to Red Sea blue bucket.

 

[Fly5150]

I use Red Sea regular now, but I'm switching back to IO. I saw way better color in my sps with IO, just parameters are all off. You have to buffer IO to your parameters before you use it.


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[pirate2876]

TMP and Brightwell. Brightwell has a higher alk but, I think the tank responded well to it. RSCP clouds up after mixing and I had a batch leave a grey/brown residue after mixing.

 

[Circle10]

ive been running/switching between coral pro salt and h20ceean salt , I believe to have beter results with coral pro .. Want to switch to brightwell neo mag salt , but scared too due to its low ALK of 7.5+ compared to 10/11 dkh of coral pro/H20cean, has any body ever switch over from high Alk salts to lower Alk 7-8 ??? How slow would you go down ???

 

[Fly5150]

ive been running/switching between coral pro salt and h20ceean salt , I believe to have beter results with coral pro .. Want to switch to brightwell neo mag salt , but scared too due to its low ALK of 7.5+ compared to 10/11 dkh of coral pro/H20cean, has any body ever switch over from high Alk salts to lower Alk 7-8 ??? How slow would you go down ???

What do you keep your parameters at? Do you dose?

 

[Jerry Williams]

The basic of is salt is salt. Now let me explain before you roll your eyes. Some salts are made artificially which guarantees purity while others use salt from evaporation, giving you more trace elements. Salts like RSPro have lots of trace elements added so if you are ignorant of that fact you will have trouble when you dose additional unneeded elements, like a spike in alk. I started out 3 years ago using IO reg. Then with a new tank went to IO crystals. I had good results with both. After seeing several tanks that I personally saw their growth and beauty, I asked what salt they used. It was RSpro. So I tried it and liked it but I made the mistake of also dosing while doing 15-20% water changes. That led to a huge alk increase. Since I have changed to 10% water changes and always mix the salt to a salinity of 1.025 and not any higher, I have very stable and healthy tanks. I have not tried Tropic Marin.

 

[Circle10]

What do you keep your parameters at? Do you dose?

Alk-10.5dkh
Cal-440ppm
Mag -1400+
K-400+
I do dose also other wise I'll drop 1-2 dkh a day!!! I'm Heavy on the sps

 

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I was talking to my Red Sea Rep when the AquaForest salt came to the westcoast. He made a valid point that the synthetic man made salts though they are good but never consistent

 

[janiners305]

My tropic marin has not been off once

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[gumbii]

i've been using morton's lately... bomb stuff...

 

[Jerry Williams]

This made me think how nature is always in a state of flux going from high to low in an effort to be neutral.

I was talking to my Red Sea Rep when the AquaForest salt came to the westcoast. He made a valid point that the synthetic man made salts though they are good but never consistent