what salt mix do you use??
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D-D (Deltec) H2Ocean Pro+. German salt with decent Ca, Alk, Mg levels. I recently started using a small bucket of H2Ocean after a few large buckets of Red Sea Coral Pro. I was getting high Ca (430ppm) but low (7.0 dkh) Alk and (1050ppm)Mg, plus brown impurity from Coral Pro, while H2Ocean gets similar Ca levels with 8.6+ Alk and 1350 Mg. Supposedly 150g per bucket at 1.025 SG. MD is the only local vendor I know of who sells it...
I started out with Oceanic, then switched to Coralife, and now I'm using Instant Ocean, I can't tell the difference, Only when I swithed to Instant Ocean my corals started closeing, but after two and a half weeks everything was fine, to me any salt is fine, except Kent sea salt!!!!!!!!! tried it once, it took about a week to completely dissolve.
I've used Coralife... a good salt for the money. I've recently switched to D-D because of the special price from SteveOhh & SoCal. Works great.
I've used Scripps & UCSB water in the past and prefer to mix my own, less algae blooms and it's clearer.
People using Seachem, don't forget that Seachem has extra Borate that can give false high alkalinity readings. Best to keep alkalinity higher, around 9-11 or a point higher than other salts unless if you are using Seachems own alkalinity test kit.
I've used Scripps & UCSB water in the past and prefer to mix my own, less algae blooms and it's clearer.
People using Seachem, don't forget that Seachem has extra Borate that can give false high alkalinity readings. Best to keep alkalinity higher, around 9-11 or a point higher than other salts unless if you are using Seachems own alkalinity test kit.
