Thoughts on (Red Sea Salt) No Bashing please!

https://aquacraft.net/marine-aquarist/issue1-1999/ma1-marine-salts/

 

Yes salinity is $90 a bucket. I have never really checked how many gallons a bucket I get. I will do that when I open up next bucket.

Mixes in about 2 hours. If left mixing for several days alk and call parcipatate out and leave residue in mixing barrel.

I used to mix and leave sit for a week but I no longer do this for this reason. I would eventually like to setup an auto water change system and would have barrel on hand mixed and ready. So when I am out of salt I will be switching.
It is good salt I have been using for over 2 years. I like to keep my tanks around 8 dhk 420 cal and around 1400 mg. Salinity 1.026

 

You dose to right @jeremy

 

Yes. I dose Bulk Reef Supply calcium, alkalinity, magnesium. I buy their bulk 5 gallon buckets.
On my sps tank I dose a lot but my 40b full of LPS only around 20ml a day of each.
When I first started keeping sps in my 120 I hardly dosed any using salinity but everything took off growing and I dose quite a bit.

 

Curious on this myself, i have noticed a brown residue in my storage tank for my auto change setup. Currently soaking to try to remove residue and was only going to run pump for a couple hours and then test the salt mix over the first few days/ week. Usual batch last about 3 weeks.

 

Sorry to throw this thread off topic but any idea on how to get rid of it? Got a 3 to 1 vinegar/water in it right now.

 

Reef crystals also leaves a residue.
My personal experience with Bio-sea marine is i make a 44g brute container every week there was not much change from when i made the water to when i had to make more water in a weeks time. I leave a powerhead on all the time in the mixing container

 

I just let the brown residue settle. Even with a pump running it settles. And every couple months I dump the bottom little bit of water and cap out then rinse with water and refill.

When left mixing I tested a batch after a week and alk was 6.5 and calcium was below 400. I didn't check anything else but would assume pH and MG would be low also.

I would like a salt that mixes around 9 dhk 420ish cal and 1350 or more MG at 1.026.

I have recently been mixing saltwater 2 hours prior to use and it has been working well.

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I forgot to add when I do a water change I pump newly mixed water into my filter sock so any residue will be caught.

 

Hey Bud. What salt mix are you going to? I know when I am out of salinity I am switching. I am gonna try that bio marine sea stuff. A while back I almost switched to the regular Red Sea bucket but I am gonna try bio sea and see how it goes.

 

Let me know how you guys like it Ray and Bud.

 

Put in a 5 gallon bucket with a lid!

 

What I did when i switched salts was 3 cups of old salt and 2 cups of new. Imo you should slowly switch