The best salt in my opinion is D&D by h20, i bought my last bucket at NAFB for 89.00, thats a great price but nothing wrong with Reef Crystals or Tropic Marin, even Fritz is good unless youve got a SPS tank. I do 25 gl every month on a 125, may not seem great but i,ll bet if people were truthful most dont do them at all.
Aquavitro for me. And I don't do water changes as often as I should. Just don't always have time for that shit. I do dose so that helps. Also have a calcium reactor waiting to be set up but I'm stalling on that because it's intimidating. Lol
I.O. for just over 25 years now. However, for almost 20 of those years I mix it 60/40 at first but now 50/50 with my home made salt and use it for tanks without sps corals, including my seahorse tanks.
I was using instant ocean then switch to Reef crystal IO for many years. Now RIO is not easy to find, lets see what's up this boxing week, thinking of Fritz. I only have soft corals and fish, not SPS.
Reef Crystals in recent years has crazy high alk - something i can personally attest to. I have tested the last few batches i bought and they run around 12 - each time i tested. Aquarium Depot has IO and RC - fairly reasonably priced too. Think they may be the only local vendors.
Think alkalinity shifts are what you need to be worried about (not that worried about calcium) if you have a SPS tank.
If you run at 9 dkh and do a 20% change using RC (assuming 13 dkh) - this would bump the alk to 9.8. Probably not catastrophic.
If you run at 9 dkh and do a 30% change using RC - this would bump the dkh to 10.2.
I alternate between Fritz and IO/RC depending whats on sale. Not a big fan of the packaging for Fritz - big giant bag whereas IO/RC breaks up each box into smaller bags.
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