Where to buy magnesium chloride locally? And is it necessary?

[cowboycove]

I dosed magnesium previously but wasn't sure if it was just magnesium sulfate. I have a bunch of BRS sulfate but the direction says to mix it with magnesium chloride as well. But I Cang seem to find it anywhere except BRS . Dont want to order from them. Is the chloride really necessary. Or is just dosing sulfate OK? And if I dose kalk, should I be dosing anything else like calcium and mag or just the kalk. ?

 

[SAKTEK]

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-07/rhf/


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[cowboycove]

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-07/rhf/


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Thank you. I did read that long ago. I do 20% water change weekly so I guess I'm good with just the sulfate. And sound like kalk is fine with it too. And maybe some turbo calcium. Lol. If that article wasn't so dMn long I'd read the whole thing but it got confusing. I'll let you know when everything dies if I fail.

 

[SAKTEK]

Thank you. I did read that long ago. I do 20% water change weekly so I guess I'm good with just the sulfate. And sound like kalk is fine with it too. And maybe some turbo calcium. Lol. If that article wasn't so dMn long I'd read the whole thing but it got confusing. I'll let you know when everything dies if I fail.

Lol... TBH I'm pretty sure you need both mixed together, not sure of the formula either, like you said (too long). From personal experience though my tanks have thrived when my mag is 1400+ Alk and cal stay balanced in my tanks when my mag is that high. Hope that helps.


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[lowbudget]

yes you need it. i think i have buckets of it. have to dig in the garage. when dosing kalk it help with ca and alk. kalk suppose to maintain the 2 level not raise it. careful with kalk too much you get a alk spike. be very careful if you do evaporating cooling

 

[cowboycove]

Lol... TBH I'm pretty sure you need both mixed together, not sure of the formula either, like you said (too long). From personal experience though my tanks have thrived when my mag is 1400+ Alk and cal stay balanced in my tanks when my mag is that high. Hope that helps.


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So I oubuse both sulfate and may then? I think I only used sulfate before and it did fine. In the article is says reason for both is if you don't use chloride as well, the sulfate itself will rise . but if you do at least 30% water change a month you're fine. I do 20% a week. And my mag has always been low hense my low calcium and everything else. I've been procrastinating on dosing. Been going old school with some turnbo calcium and just iodine.

 

[cowboycove]

yes you need it. i think i have buckets of it. have to dig in the garage. when dosing kalk it help with ca and alk. kalk suppose to maintain the 2 level not raise it. careful with kalk too much you get a alk spike. be very careful if you do evaporating cooling

I do do evaporating cooling. Be careful with evap cooling and kalk or in general? And I guess I'll look for some mag flake soon. Any idea on the mix formukanor do I have to read the giant article. Lol

 

[lowbudget]

I do do evaporating cooling. Be careful with evap cooling and kalk or in general? And I guess I'll look for some mag flake soon. Any idea on the mix formukanor do I have to read the giant article. Lol

if you are using kalk in your topoff. the more evap cooling removes water from tank. the more water you remove the more top off you add the more topoff you add the more kalk you add. the more kalk you add the higher your alk = alk spike


you have to test to see how much kalk will keep your number stable.

when i dose kalk i would use it inline with my ato

 

[Emac909]

Mag sulfate is a salt type of mag. Mag chloride will not rise the salinity in your tank like sulfate will.
I can order mag chloride off eBay. U can buy like 10lbs for $20 of food grade mag chloride.

 

[cowboycove]

Mag sulfate is a salt type of mag. Mag chloride will not rise the salinity in your tank like sulfate will.
I can order mag chloride off eBay. U can buy like 10lbs for $20 of food grade mag chloride.

Any idea where? I looked up home depot and a bunch if stuff comes up but I have no idea if its reef safe or not. And amazon also has some stuff in smaller amounts. But expensive.

 

[pandimus]

I've ordered from a guy on eBay name mrgettanked. Good seller

http://m.ebay.com/itm/161819768385?_mwBanner=1