Tropic Marin Salt MIX! how about it?

[spykes]

hey my tank has been Fed up by oceanic salt, I dont know if i just had a bad batch, but seriously the salt gives cyano to every tank i've seen so far. I want to switch over to tropic marin. I need some reviews for this salt FELLOW REEFSERS HELP ME REVIEW SALT!

they came out with a pro reef formula i been dying to check out. lemme know
http://www.tropic-marin.com/web/english/produkte/pro-reef.htm
Also anyone know where's the cheapest place i can purchase this salt?

 

[glipper69]

funny I've been fighting cyano for a few months now and no matter I do I couldn't figure it out, except I switched to oceanic about the smae time.

I wonder if thats whats been causeing the headache this entire time.

After you switch I would be interested to know if it goes away.

good luck,
Frank

 

[NaClH2oTANK]

i never used oceanic, but i am currently using tropic marin. and i thinks its fine.

 

[bad coffee]

I read some threads on Reefs.org and everyone seems to like it. The only thing that seems to be the constant complaint is the price. It's usually one of the more expensive brands.

I bought a 200gal bucket at Fishtown today for $60 I was looking for instant ocean, but figured, wth, I'll try it. I'm making an bucket of RO water now. I'll mix up to 1.024 and then do tests on it. we'll see how the ca, alk, and mag all turn out on a fresh batch.

BC

 

[marrone]

I have been using the TM forever and have never had any problems with it. I just swith over to TM pro reef formula, because it suppose to have more cal & mag, but I really haven't seen any different between the 2 products except that pro reef formula mixes very fast and clear and it cost more.

 

[spykes]

cool man, you know big al's is 58 bucks shipped to our doors without tax. i think it's better shipped to me then wasting gas to get to fishtown, it's really the same price as IO since we get 40 gallons more then IO if you think of it that way. fishtown it's 59bucks with tax and gas LOL lemme know bad coffee

 

[spykes]

marrone how much is it?

 

[marrone]

I had it shipped from one of the on-line place which I forget which one. I think it was $58-$61 shipped. The price ranges are all very close as it's very hard to get a break on shipping nowadays. FishTown was a little more and since I would have to get a car also it was better to have it delivered to my door.

 

[spykes]

lemme know how where to get that price for the pro version.

 

[marrone]

I got it from Salty Critter and the price was $54.99
Shipping $8.95 Total $63.94. It was cheapier than FishTown and I didn't have to pick it up.

 

[spykes]

5499? how? it's like 59 bucks itself on salty critters.

 

[marrone]

When I purchased it that was what the price was. Some one posted it on RC and I purchased it from them right away. The price differences between places wasn't that great anyway, a couple of $ here or there.

Anyway the pay came cracked, lucky I didn't lose any salt. I let them know and they didn't seem to care. First time I order from them and probably the last.

 

[spykes]

heh probably man, i think i might just go with big al cause that place even put up the price of shipping to 12 dollars.

 

[marrone]

You need to be careful on what they have shipping listed for on these sites. Alot of them have one price but after you place your order they will come back to you with a different price on shipping.

 

[ctxmonitor]

Yea, I noticed that too. But mostly due to heavy item, though.

 

[ctxmonitor]

So do you guys think that Tropic-marin is worth $13 dollars more than Instant salt??

 

[marrone]

Yes.

 

[spykes]

instant ocean = 160 gallons
for 13 bucks more you get 40 gallons more mix + higher quality

 

[clownfishking]

I pay $31.00 for 160 gal of IO, is the TM for $44.00? Where I need some for that Price.

 

[ctxmonitor]

The $44 is before shipping from bigal that is. After shipping its like $58.

If you getting $31 for 160 of IO, that is awesome. So where you get yours at?