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Batt, OzoneparkGuy is correct. In truth there isnt realy any salt thats desighned for fish only as it were. (its a bit of an old wives tale that still circulates through the hobby that this or that salt isnt to be used with full reefs and SPS etc)
I know many people who have had just as much success with IO in SPS systems over a great many years as I do people who have used other brands that are alledged to be better. Myself included.
I now use H20Cean, but ran IO for well over 10 years.
A couple of pictures of my old 200 gallon that was run from start to finish on IO.
to be honest, the crucial factor with any salt is to understand its limitations. Some salts although slightly lower in major elements like Ca and Mg etc may actually be more 'in balance' across the range relative to salinity, compared to some other salts that have artificialy elevated levels of say Mg or Ca alone. Whack a ca reactor on the lesser salt to boost things up a bit and you have a very stable system, compared to some elevated brands that suffer imbalances through instability when trying to pack more into the mix.
Salt is a huge subject to be honest. I agree some brands are better than others when you start looking at the differences between the very cheapest and most expensive brands but by and large the 'better' bit is more to do with how the keeper wants to run thier tank and manage supplimentation than the actual salt itself in many cases.
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Randy.
......to be honest I toyed with various methods and just came to the conclusion that the water jug method was the only realy practicle way of calibrating at a known measurable temp. Ive tried it with a few different refractometers and the differences in reading on some that are calibrated out of the recommended temp setting are quite shocking to be honest....One cheap chinese model that was calibrated at 15c against its recommended 20c was reading 40ppt against a true 35ppt when recalibrated at the correct temp. that is a huge error factor. If you werent aware, you could quite easily be running a reef at 30ppt thinking you were at 35ppt with all sorts of deprivation problems occuring.
regards
I know many people who have had just as much success with IO in SPS systems over a great many years as I do people who have used other brands that are alledged to be better. Myself included.
I now use H20Cean, but ran IO for well over 10 years.
A couple of pictures of my old 200 gallon that was run from start to finish on IO.
to be honest, the crucial factor with any salt is to understand its limitations. Some salts although slightly lower in major elements like Ca and Mg etc may actually be more 'in balance' across the range relative to salinity, compared to some other salts that have artificialy elevated levels of say Mg or Ca alone. Whack a ca reactor on the lesser salt to boost things up a bit and you have a very stable system, compared to some elevated brands that suffer imbalances through instability when trying to pack more into the mix.
Salt is a huge subject to be honest. I agree some brands are better than others when you start looking at the differences between the very cheapest and most expensive brands but by and large the 'better' bit is more to do with how the keeper wants to run thier tank and manage supplimentation than the actual salt itself in many cases.
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Randy.
......to be honest I toyed with various methods and just came to the conclusion that the water jug method was the only realy practicle way of calibrating at a known measurable temp. Ive tried it with a few different refractometers and the differences in reading on some that are calibrated out of the recommended temp setting are quite shocking to be honest....One cheap chinese model that was calibrated at 15c against its recommended 20c was reading 40ppt against a true 35ppt when recalibrated at the correct temp. that is a huge error factor. If you werent aware, you could quite easily be running a reef at 30ppt thinking you were at 35ppt with all sorts of deprivation problems occuring.regards
