Salt Brands

[b190again]

I haven't setup my tank yet and before buying my initial bucket of salt I was wondering is there a difference between Red Sea and Kent's? at my LFS the Kent's is almost twice as much.

[Nano Chris]

Some salts have different levels of calcium, alk, and some other elements. I use IO (i see lots of users use this.) Some people just buy anything thats cheap too.

[frederickk]

I'm a IO fan to. Calcium is higher.

[revclyburn]

Tropic Marin Pro reef salt, or just Tropic Marin. Order it from thatpetplace.com

edwin

[Poorcollegereef]

Fan of Instant Ocean (IO) and Reef Crystals, TM Pro Reef is good too. I am never a fan of any Red Sea product, so I would go with Kent if there was no other choice. If you are not keeping any corals what so ever and cheap salt will do for a FOWLR system... but I dont keep a FOWLR and some people use much better salt for them too

[markandkristen]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9020305#post9020305 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Poorcollegereef
Fan of Instant Ocean (IO) and Reef Crystals, TM Pro Reef is good too. I am never a fan of any Red Sea product, so I would go with Kent if there was no other choice. If you are not keeping any corals what so ever and cheap salt will do for a FOWLR system... but I dont keep a FOWLR and some people use much better salt for them too

ditto.
if your only going to keep mushrooms and softies i wouldnt spend the extra on kents. but if your planning on loading it up with corals i would go with kent

[Krazy]

Another fan of Instant Ocean here...

What I do is print out the petsmart webpage for the 160gallon bucket, its $31.99 and bring that with you to petsmart, they'll honor the web page price :D

[Poorcollegereef]

Krazy K

Some Petsmarts do some dont... In any case, I like to support my LFS, not chains... plus they have $9.99 bags of instant ocean. Cant beat that from a LFS!

[Krazy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9020609#post9020609 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Poorcollegereef
Krazy K

Some Petsmarts do some dont... In any case, I like to support my LFS, not chains... plus they have $9.99 bags of instant ocean. Cant beat that from a LFS!

I like to buy things in bulk :p

[Slingshot]

I don't see IO reef crystals 160gal. on Petsmart website... Have they taken it off?

Dave

[Loralie]

I use Reef crystals