Aquaforest Salt

[Trio91]

So the other Jay @jazeel50 stopped by to pick up a fish and him and I got to the talking. In short hes now using aquaforest products for his tank and his corals are thriving. Hearing and seeing pix of his tank I decided to do my research on it....and for the most part I was sold.

Around this time of the year is usually when I re-up on salt as it's always on sale due to black Friday and what. My go-to brand is instant oceans RC but the price on it has seem to have gone up....a 200gal box was $62+ vs. The $40 for the box of aquaforest.

In short, I pulled the trigger on it, and now will be using the AF Salt mix in my tank....will keep folks when I start to use it.

 

[MadReefer]

Marcus and Jay,
Have you guys compared the two regarding trace elements? Would be interesting to see.

 

[jazeel50]

I mean I haven't done a water change in over two months and my tank continues to look amazing


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[Trio91]

Well I haven't gotten it yet, should have it by this coming week. Right now I'm just doing the salts, and depending on how it goes, I'll transition to the trace elements.

With this, I'm still going to run my Kalk in my ato

 

[jazeel50]

All I dose is AF nothing else and my level are always on point.


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[art13]

Careful with it, I was using it and all my corals all took a turn, I picked up Red Sea and started using that and all my corals came back. People have had varying expierences with it.

 

[Giovani Cordero]

So the other Jay @jazeel50 stopped by to pick up a fish and him and I got to the talking. In short hes now using aquaforest products for his tank and his corals are thriving. Hearing and seeing pix of his tank I decided to do my research on it....and for the most part I was sold.

Around this time of the year is usually when I re-up on salt as it's always on sale due to black Friday and what. My go-to brand is instant oceans RC but the price on it has seem to have gone up....a 200gal box was $62+ vs. The $40 for the box of aquaforest.

In short, I pulled the trigger on it, and now will be using the AF Salt mix in my tank....will keep folks when I start to use it.

There is any lfs the sell it?

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[Trio91]

Not that I know of....but readily available online

 

[MadReefer]

Well I haven't gotten it yet, should have it by this coming week. Right now I'm just doing the salts, and depending on how it goes, I'll transition to the trace elements.

With this, I'm still going to run my Kalk in my ato

I meant salt parameters:
AQUAFOREST
Cl – 19000-19500 mg/l
Na – 10500-10600 mg/l
Mg – 1300-1380 mg/l
S – 840-890 mg/l
Ca – 410-440 mg/l
K – 380-400 mg/l
Br – 60-70 mg/l
F – 1,2-1,5 mg/l
Fe – 0,05-0,06 mg/l
Sr – 8-9 mg/l
dKH – 7,2-8,0
pH – 7,8-8,2

Cannot locate similar for REEF CRYSTALS but will keep searching.

 

[Trio91]

Those numbers listed are pretty solid in my opinion Mark @MadReefer, with me continuing to supplement with Kalk, it should (should) turn out fine.

But honestly I never really checked the parameters on IORC.....it was just something I always used based on price

 

[Trio91]

This is what I have found so for IORC

The specific gravity of NSW is typically 1.026 (35 parts per thousand, or ppt, salinity). When dissolved in pure water to a specific gravity of 1.026, Instant Ocean® should provide a solution that has 400 mg/L calcium ion and 1320 mg/L magnesium ion. If Instant Ocean® is dissolved to a lower specific gravity, then these concentrations (and, in fact, the concentration of every other ion) will be proportionately lower.

 

[Trio91]

They show high Alk in some cases pushing around 11