BEST salt for a REEF tank?

[Bob 1000]

Io is more than good enough.. That's all I use.. Corals don't lie..

 

[jackson6745]

Coralife for over 10 years

+1
Cheap and great cal, alk, and MG levels.

I wouldn't pay 2x the price for salt with buffered levels. It costs pennies to raise your cal, alk, mg even potassium, iron, iodine etc....

 

[ClosetFishGeek]

+1
cheap and great cal, alk, and mg levels.

I wouldn't pay 2x the price for salt with buffered levels. It costs pennies to raise your cal, alk, mg even potassium, iron, iodine etc....

+1

 

[Bob 1000]

Wow I might be switching to coralife as long as I'm running a calcium reactor.. Being that I've seen some of the coralife users systems and nice pieces in them..

 

[jaa1456]

I used all those other salts mentioned, with dosing and running reactors and all that other crap. In 16 years I have never seen this kind of growth or coloring in my corals. ESV might cost more but it has won me over.

 

[flipit13]

+1 for ESV alittle more but i haven't dosed in months and mainly sps, lps & clams all reef hogs lol. now with the frag and prop system i might have to rethink the cost though

 

[CrAzY cOrAlS]

esv it is

 

[Deep Dive Coral]

Is it ok to switch to esv or corallife in an established tank. I use io right now but I'm looking to boost my levels without having to dose every couple of days. Trying to keep sps in my tank with leds.

 

[CrAzY cOrAlS]

this will be a new setup

 

[Deep Dive Coral]

NO ITS AN EXISTING 125... AND THEN THE FRAG SYSTEM WILL BE A NEW SEUT UP
sorry for capps

 

[Deep Dive Coral]

also if anyone uses coral life can you post the readding you get from a mix..
calcium, alk, mag, anything else you may test for. thanks.

 

[jaa1456]

Is it ok to switch to esv or corallife in an established tank. I use io right now but I'm looking to boost my levels without having to dose every couple of days. Trying to keep sps in my tank with leds.

Yes it is ok, You are only gonna be adding it during water changes so everything will get use to it in small amounts. When I set up my new tank I used ESV in it, while the smaller tank has Seachem Reef in it, I swapped everything into the new tank with no affects at all.

 

[jadakiss]

reef cyrstals the bomb

 

[recife]

seachems Salinity salt is great

 

[stage3-S4]

ESV is by far the best salt on the market. The best staibilty in alk,calc,mag, and no phosphates. IO and even IO reef crystals have phosphates in them. I would always get an algea bloom when I did a water change. There is a huge thread about it on RC.

 

[D1J8Z]

ESV is by far the best salt on the market. The best staibilty in alk,calc,mag, and no phosphates. IO and even IO reef crystals have phosphates in them. I would always get an algea bloom when I did a water change. There is a huge thread about it on RC.

I read just about the whole huge thread on RC and the conclusion was no salt contained traces of phosphate. And there is no perfect salt. Most recommend buying cheap salt and dosing. This is just what I got out of the million page thread.

 

[jaa1456]

I read just about the whole huge thread on RC and the conclusion was no salt contained traces of phosphate. And there is no perfect salt. Most recommend buying cheap salt and dosing. This is just what I got out of the million page thread.

So let me get this right, You would rather buy cheap salt to save money and then buy everything else you need to dose it, instead of just buying a better salt? And not only that you are now adding more time and effort into your tank.

 

[stage3-S4]

I read just about the whole huge thread on RC and the conclusion was no salt contained traces of phosphate. And there is no perfect salt. Most recommend buying cheap salt and dosing. This is just what I got out of the million page thread.

I read the whole thread, and the one guy had the salt sent to a lab and it did in fact contain traces of phosphates. Also I dont feel like putting salted water in my tank with a film of brown goo on it. And I have first hand experince with this as it was the only salt I used. To be honest spending more money on salt will save you in the long run, espically with esv. I find that I don't have to dose nearly as much as I did when using coralife,IO,oceanic etc.

 

[naples]

i use Oceanic and love it But i hear that D&D is Great too

 

[D1J8Z]

So let me get this right, You would rather buy cheap salt to save money and then buy everything else you need to dose it, instead of just buying a better salt? And not only that you are now adding more time and effort into your tank.

In theory buying bulk cal and mag is much cheaper than buying salt thats 75 a box(which most likely you still need to dose at least a little) vs 45 a box and dose more.

Keep in mind these people are dosing the water before being added to the tank not the tank itself.

I don't personally do this yet but I will. Once again this is what I got out of the read.