Salt?

[Bosnianblood69]

Is there any brand that you guys would recomend for salt mix use? I heard instant ocean gets big clumps of like brown sludge on bottom?

 

[melosu58]

This is one of those questions that if you ask ten people you`ll get 11 answers. I use Oceanic salt but there is no one salt mix that is better than everyone else. They all have their pros and cons.

 

[Flaxon-Waxon]

Is there any brand that you guys would recomend for salt mix use? I heard instant ocean gets big clumps of like brown sludge on bottom?

I use instant ocean and don't get clumps... However if exposed to moisture any salt will get
clumpy. I also only have a FOWLR, and when I eventually start to do corals will be using a different salt...

 

[bavass]

I use Red Sea Coral Pro

 

[Mrc8858]

What your keeping and how heavily stocked on corals you are can help determine a salt that will best suit you along with if your looking at a certain price range but as stated above everyone has their own preference. No one salt has proven to be the "holy grail" of reef keeping yet lol.

Edit* I use Kent reef salt by the way.

 

[Bosnianblood69]

So if you where to have a reef tank what salt would you use?

 

[bavass]

it really comes down to the demands of the tank. Some like more Alk, Calcium, Mag etc... I tried a lot of different salts till I found the one that seemed to fit my tank needs the best. I went through Instant Ocean, Reef Crystals, Corallife, Seachem, I found with Red Sea Coral Pro I had to add less aditives to get salt mix to match tank parameters

 

[Bosnianblood69]

Thats what i was thinking of going with and i might now thanks

 

[54seaweed]

used IO reef crystals in the past

I now use Kent Marine Reef salt now and love it !!