What salt do you use?

[Jimbo327]

What salt do you use? I've been using the TM Pro salt, but it's $120 per bucket for 200 gal. I'm aiming to do SPS dominant.

TM Pro is a great salt, mixes clean and spot on. But is it really that much better than Instant Ocean purple bucket? It's $50 at Petco for 160 gal.

IO is also pretty close, maybe a tad lower in calcium/mag and high on alk. Anyone run regular IO purple bucket that is SPS dominant?

Or am I just being cheap and should even try to save some money on salt?

 

[Dooly]

I use RS blue bucket and have some sps in my tank..

 

[REPOWER]

Red Sea Coral Pro for me, mixed tank. Used TM pro for a couple of years after a reboot then switched to Red Sea pro as the tank matured.

 

[Tommy Ngo]

I don’t really do water change on my system. The only time that I do water change on my system is when I am doing treatment on it and when I do I have a bucket of Red Sea blue bucket on hand.

 

[five.five-six]

IO, SPS dominated.

 

[dansyr]

I use IO purple bucket on my nanos including the one with clams/sps. Not sure if this counts as SPS dominated or clam dominated or what. But it's 20 gallon so 'dominated doesn't need much by anything

 

[joeoliver]

I also use TM Pro and stock up during sales. I typically get the 200 gallon bucket for around $100, but got a couple last year for $90 at petco.

I store my salt for weeks at a time and also like that my container stays pretty clean. I wish the alkalinity was a bit higher though.

 

[Discotu]

I typically use IO, RC and more recently TM. Depends on what I find on sale or through the forums. I miss the days where I could order the 200g box of RC on amz for $40 delivered or 160g bucket at petco for $40 on sale. I've found that as long as you keep your params (and trace elements) steady that it doesnt matter, at least for me. between the above salts I don't notice any difference and sometimes I mix salts between batches. My SPS dominant tank seems happy.

 

[Xaznkewlguyx]

I used to use purple IO, couldn’t ever get kh <10 so switched to brightwell.

 

[REPOWER]

I also use TM Pro and stock up during sales. I typically get the 200 gallon bucket for around $100, but got a couple last year for $90 at petco.

I store my salt for weeks at a time and also like that my container stays pretty clean. I wish the alkalinity was a bit higher though.

I’m with you on this one but have since traded TM Pro’s clean mix/container for the higher alk of RSCP. Both served my use cases quite well.

 

[joseserrano]

Using tmp, right now, before aqua forest, and before that fauna marine. Whatever I can get a good deal on pallet wise.

 

[Discotu]

Using tmp, right now, before aqua forest, and before that fauna marine. Whatever I can get a good deal on pallet wise.

Are there deals on pallets? I wouldn't mind going in on a group buy if the price is right.

 

[joeoliver]

same here

 

[Dooly]

what is the right price per bucket of salt for you guys? margin is pretty thin, but I order pallets anyhow..

 

[Discotu]

what is the right price per bucket of salt for you guys? margin is pretty thin, but I order pallets anyhow..

Oh I get it..."hey guys your salt is in...come pick it up" I leave with 1 bag of salt and 10 bags of livestock lol! You might be on to something

 

[pa1ntbru5h]

Usually Instant Ocean, but recently got a good deal on Tropic Marin Pro so giving that a go.

 

[Jimbo327]

where are people getting deals on TMP? I would get a few buckets for sure.

How many buckets is in a pallet?

 

[Dooly]

Oh I get it..."hey guys your salt is in...come pick it up" I leave with 1 bag of salt and 10 bags of livestock lol! You might be on to something

haha, a bucket of salt and a bucket of frags. everyone wins LOL

 

[Dooly]

where are people getting deals on TMP? I would get a few buckets for sure.

How many buckets is in a pallet?

TMP is expensive, could do $100+tax if we get 10+ buckets or red sea for $85+tax for scr members

 

[Discotu]

What about 200g boxes of IO or RC?