How to judge a good marine salt? Any merit to this??

[cdeakle]

http://www.aquacraft.net/s9910.html

 

[baseman]

Very interesting site, however, I tend not to take much stock in data provided by a manufacturer about the competition, particularly when I've never heard of the product.

 

[Anonymous]

I have read that and spoke with the manufactuer online who sells that salt from that site. I dont know if it is good or not but they are really pushy on selling that stuff.
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[tangir1]

I am a bad typist myself, so I understand why things like this happens. Hopeful the webmaster of the site will correct this... think of this post as a public service...

http://www.aquacraft.net/s9912.html

Preparation of Solutions:
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2 - One at a time, each of the packages were carefully opened at one end, and 60-700 gin were transferred to correspondingly labeled ziploc[®] polyethylene bags.

3 - From these ziplock[®] bags, 500.0 gm of salts were sequentially transferred to the pail, and demonized water was added to make solutions as specified on the labels.
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Jump back to the Fuji Cigar Page

So... how much is a gin? Is it same size as a half-liter 200 proof vodka? I know what is holy water (they musta boiled the hell out of it!), but demonized water is definitely more interesting.... even to atheists... and is the webpages only intended for cigar lovers? Is it any better than the Cubans?

I don't know science, so I only can point out these trivil points.

 

[elpescado]

I have used a few of the salts listed on that site's rank list.
I have used Marine Environment (their hydrometers suck big time. They are calibrated at to low a temperature), Bio-Sea, Coral Marine, Meersaltz (also by Marine Environments), New Ocean, Red Sea (I am presently using this). Coral Sea, Forty Fathoms/Crystal Sea, Tropic Marin, Instant Ocean (made by Aquarium Systems, owned by Marineland), Kent Salt, Reef Crystals (also an Aquarium Systems product), and Coralife. I have also used the new Oceanic salt that wasn't on the list. It's not bad, disolves quickly and thoroughly leaving no residue. It registers no ammonia after mixing, but only has a carbonate reading of 5.5 dKH and a calcium reading of 320ppm. The salt they have listed as scoring a 100 (Marine Environment), did not impress me much. Yes, it has 73 trace elements, but it leaves a lot of undisolved residue even if I ran a pump to keep it mixing. A little bit of a negative in my book.
Of all of them I have used I like Red Sea, Coralife, and Tropic Marin the best. I haven't been using Oceanic at our store long enough to form any solid opinion on it. If I had a specs sheet on its contents I would get a better idea of it.
All in all, don't put to much faith in that site's ranking system.
What works best in on person's system may not work the best in someone else's system. Try them all and form your own opinion.

 

[silly34]

I just started using Oceanic. I had been using Kent Red Sea and Instant Ocean. But since using Oceanic nothing has died yet :roll:


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