Tropic marin has helped my ca levels

[bizzybeas]

Awhile ago I started a post about my inability to raise my ca levels above 350 no matter what product I used. (and I tried several!) Reef runner suggested that it may have been the salt I was using (it was Instant ocean) Since switching to Tropic Marin I have had no problem maintaining my Ca at 400 to 425. My clam is very happy!! Just wanted you to benefit from all of my headaches! I think everytime I did a water change I placed my tank further behind and could not "catch up" with my ca level.

 

[e-cat]

i think im going too switch salts too tropic marine, i keep hearing good stuff about it.

 

[ReefRaff]

hmm maybe i should give that a try. I have the same problems. I start out at 350 and I can get it to 375 and then it starts to drop again. I also use IO.

 

[e-cat]

im at 350 also and useing red sea

 

[reefrunner69]

Before switching....if you cannot raise your CA and your ALK stays consitantly high...you may want to test your mg, if it is at the proper level you might then look to blame the salt, it could simply be low

 

[ReefRaff]

hmmm... I'll have to go buy that test kit, along with the po4 LOL.

 

[e-cat]

Before switching....if you cannot raise your CA and your ALK stays consitantly high...you may want to test your mg, if it is at the proper level you might then look to blame the salt, it could simply be low

i was having a talk with steve-s about the mg possible being the problem for me in another post, but if tropic marine is a well worth brand of salt too buy , why not switch

 

[reefrunner69]

I'm not saying anything about Tropic Marin...I use it myself and I switched from IO, I am just hesitant about encouraging people to switch, if not done carefully you can encounter problems.

 

[ReefRaff]

if not done carefully you can encounter problems.

what are some of the typical problems one can expect to encounter when switching marine mix's. I have heard most are sythetic with the exception of coralife.

 

[reefrunner69]

I have heard most are sythetic with the exception of coralife.

I think all are synthetic with the exception of Red Sea which is taken from some salt deposits...somewhere, LOL.

At any rate, some people have changed salts and done so too quickly and caused some bleaching events in corals, I think this is mostly been the case with Crystal Sea bioassay salt, but it is a potential when switching to any brand salt. Go slow and you shouldn't have a problem.

 

[e-cat]

so would you recomend mixing the salts at first then?

 

[e-cat]

I have heard most are sythetic with the exception of coralife.

I think all are synthetic with the exception of Red Sea which is taken from some salt deposits...somewhere, LOL.

would that be good or bad?

 

[reefrunner69]

would that be good or bad?

I have no idea, I'm not fond of Red Sea salt, so I guess I would consider it bad.

so would you recomend mixing the salts at first then?

When switching salt mixes, you simply switch the salt you use for water changes. You would not want to do a 100% waterchange when switching salts. When I switched I went from 25% gross volume waterchanges by weekly to 12.5% gross water changes weekly, for about a month then went back to the regular routine. It worked for me.

 

[bizzybeas]

I did check my mg level before switching salts. It was in check.

 

[e-cat]

would that be good or bad?

I have no idea, I'm not fond of Red Sea salt, so I guess I would consider it bad.

so would you recomend mixing the salts at first then?

When switching salt mixes, you simply switch the salt you use for water changes. You would not want to do a 100% waterchange when switching salts. When I switched I went from 25% gross volume waterchanges by weekly to 12.5% gross water changes weekly, for about a month then
went back to the regular routine. It worked for me.

thanks

 

[ellisz]

Where are you getting the Tropic Marin? Locally?

 

[ReefRaff]

Not Local. I'm getting it from www.bigalsonline.com. It's like 37.00 and shipping is 14.00 from were ever there at to cleveland oh. thats 51.00 and I currantly pay 57.00 for IO local. Prices are based on a 200 gallon mix.

 

[cj10488]

they must be close to you.. A 200gal bucket shipped to Oregon is $37.99+
$35.20 s/h

Ouch...

James