Most calcium additives are chloride based. I don't
like the idea of using acetate.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


wrote on 3/1/2007 2:42 PM:
Salifert claims this is a one-part calcium/buffer system. Anyone
using this stuff? Their product description claims:
.. This Supplement is highly concentrated and contains for example
approx. 55,000 ppm calcium, corresponding amounts of biologically-
activated bicarbonate and approx. 1000 ppm strontium. The calcium is
acetate based and is converted within minutes to calcium bicarbonate.
This is unlike gluconate-based products.

So are they saying that B Ionic and the like are gluconate-based? It
sounds a little fishy to me, but dang, it would be nice to have a one-
part system for the non-chemists/lazy aquarists out there.

Thanks
Ryan Lenz