Red Sea Coral Pro Salt

[FB]

Anyone using this.

Considering switching from Instant Ocean to this.

My last batch had a ton of white crap in the bottom. I'm assuming calcium precipitate.

 

[Anonymous]

I always liked Red Sea salt. Much better than instand ocean. RS actually disolves all the way.

 

[Vasces]

Over the years I've switched back and forth between the two and have never seen any real difference. Maybe you just got a bad batch.

 

[iseeweed]

I switched about 6 months ago. I really like the salt. I once measured the Ca with a fresh batch in distilled water. If I remember correctly, I think it was around 390ppm at 1.022 salinity.

 

[Ben1]

I will use IO over red sea, IO is the better salt.

Right now I am using seachems Reef Salt. I still think the best salts are the sera, tropic marin pro, and Seachems reef salt. Seachems reef salt has a higher level of Boron but nothing that has caused any issues.

JMO

 

[FB]

This is a new salt from Red Sea. Specifically for reefs or so thier website says.

Red Sea Coral Pro Salt
http://www.redseafish.com/Product.asp?d ... &proID=283

Red Sea Regular Salt.
http://www.redseafish.com/Product.asp?d ... &proID=190

Is everyone refering to the regular or the pro salt.

Just want to make sure we are all talking about the same thing.

 

[Platax]

Hello!
In Moscow many use salt Red Sea Coral Pro .
The level of calcium even is a little bit higher than is declared on a site of firm. (1.025 35.0 ppt 490 ppm).
I use salt Red Sea Coral Pro or Tropic Marin Pro, both of them of excellent quality.

Best Regards,
Andrey Ospin

 

[FB]

I picked some of this up and mixed up my first batch. First thing I noticed compared to IO is that is mixed 100% very quickly.

Here is what I ended up with.

1.025
CA - 480
ALK - 7 DKH
PH ~8.2

I brought my DKH up to 10.5.

 

[spankey]

I have bought two batches of the red sea coral pro as did my buddy and everytime we mixed a batch it would leave what looked like metal flakes in the bottom of the container? Whats up with that. I will give it one thing it tests great, but it doesn't disolve as fast as IO. I also have much better SPS colors using IO vs Red Sea coral pro.....

Just my findings...

 

[Anonymous]

how a salt dissolves (grit/residue at the bottom of the bucket)has very little to do with the constituent properties of the water it makes/ i always get a chuckle from how companies use that for marketing ploy

red sea always left a small amount of sediment residue in the bucket-and i've spawned and raised damsels with it

the original red sea salt, and crystal sea by mei are the only two salts i've found via long term seperate batch testing to live up to the box claims, and to have consistent good Ca and Mag levels-i've used crystal sea exclusively at work (retail and import/wholesale) and at home for the past 5 years or so

almost any major brand salt will keep a tank healthy and happy, though-99% of the 'problems with a salt mix' are more likely 'user error' than the all too commonly used 'scapegoat salt excuse' that hobbyists use when something is amiss with their tank-and ron shimek's armchair science salt study did little to quiet all the bs hype surrounding salt mixes

damsels/clowns were spawning in home made salt mixes in the '60's using recipes that were quite abit more 'primitive' than the manufacturing processes of today (e.g.-the monaco formula)

i've seen hobbyists swear on a stack of biblesthat a salt is garbage,and is the reason their tank is going south, while using a cheapo swing arm hydrometer that was off a full 5 thousandths of a point on SG!

:lol: