mfdrookie516
Aquarium Free - 2+ Years
It's $59.99 at BRS... not sure how much shipping would be, but you could add a few other goodies to the cart and get free shipping
As I mentioned earlier, I never had any problems with the original Coral Pro formula and I like the Red Sea, but I don't keep my calcium at 500 or my alk at 12 dKH (the original version had a much lower alk level). Being I dose a set amount of calcium and alk everyday I don't want to have to change my routine on days I do a water change. I perfer to use salt that's as close to the parameters I keep my tank at and the regular formula Red Sea is perfect for me. The Tropic Marin parameters look good, but the price turns me off. Stability is a key to success and if I can keep my water parameter pretty much the same day in and day out it leads to a stable system. I'm not saying you can't have success using a salt that may have much higher than natural calcium and alk levels, it just didn't fit my way of maintaining stable water parameters.Last night I made three different five gallon mixes of saltwater from coral pro salt (water change time anyway. All three tested out 510, 500, 510 calcium, 1370 mag, and 12 dkh. I used salifert and tropic marin tests. I did one test from my old half used tropic marin's and it was 420 cal, 9 dkh and 1350 mag. I just asked about dry mixing the salt first because in the past I have seen major differences in parameters from the top to bottom of the buckets, especially with large mixes. Just like anything else shipped, I figured it may have settled.
WOW I pay $45 for a bucket of regular Red Sea at my LFS.I looked at an LFS tonight, Red Sea (not pro!) was $99.99 for a bucket. Craziness.
ccCapt said:I used about 10 175gal buckets of the Red Sea Coral Pro and while I didn't have any major problems with it, I didn't like the fact the calcium and alk are not really balanced. The calcium is very high (490) and alk too low (7 dKH). It messed up my dosing regime. I used regular Red Sea salt for over 10 yrs so I switched back to that. The calcium and alk are more balanced at 400 ca and 8 alk.