What's the best SALT?

Ah come on admit its true, trust me no one is gonna laugh. .....come
on now admit its ture...thats got to be the best frugal thing i have
heard in a long long time.......

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:33:09 GMT, "TheRock" wrote:
When I do water changes I save my dirty water and evaporate it.
Then I scrape out the left over salt and add it back to the system later.
I've bought one bag of salt in the last 3 years !!!




(just kidding)


"Peter Pan" wrote in message
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I've been using Instant Ocean since I set up my 75 Gal. FOWLR tank in 2002
and never had a problem. I've read that its not really a good idea to
change salt, but if you were to change it, it was a very lengthy process
with mixing your current salt with the new stuff until your completly
changed over.( the process should take several months.

My local LFS said that KENT was better for my tank then using Instant
Ocean. What im wondering is; Is it better for his profits or is it really
a better product for my tank?

Thanks



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"Roy" wrote in message
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Ah come on admit its true, trust me no one is gonna laugh.
.....come
on now admit its ture...thats got to be the best frugal thing i
have
heard in a long long time.......


Doesn't sound like that great an idea to me. The critters in the tank
USE the trace minerals in the salt mix. It would get so depleted
after time, I would think critters would begin to suffer.

Those "trace minerals" as you call them, are in every food or living
organism that you feed to your fish. Don't worry about your trace minerals,
worry more about that PO4 that feeds the algae and spoils your tank

jrs
"Billy" wrote in message
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"Roy" wrote in message
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Ah come on admit its true, trust me no one is gonna laugh. .....come
on now admit its ture...thats got to be the best frugal thing i have
heard in a long long time.......


Doesn't sound like that great an idea to me. The critters in the tank USE
the trace minerals in the salt mix. It would get so depleted after time, I
would think critters would begin to suffer.

"Jaime R-S" wrote in message
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Those "trace minerals" as you call them, are in every food or
living organism that you feed to your fish. Don't worry about your
trace minerals, worry more about that PO4 that feeds the algae and
spoils your tank



Sometimes I wonder why I bother posting here. Why don't drop by reef
central or GARF sometime and tell people that have been caring for
reef tanks all thier lives to "not worry about trace minerals".

Its OK, if you come to this forum, we try to help with different views. I
am not a hobbyist, I am a marine biologist that tried to give you, or whom
ever asked, some advice from a different point of view.
If those same people that had been dealing with tanks all their lives were
successful, YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE to start with!
Now, have a nice day!

jrs


"Billy" wrote in message
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"Jaime R-S" wrote in message
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Those "trace minerals" as you call them, are in every food or living
organism that you feed to your fish. Don't worry about your trace
minerals, worry more about that PO4 that feeds the algae and spoils your
tank



Sometimes I wonder why I bother posting here. Why don't drop by reef
central or GARF sometime and tell people that have been caring for reef
tanks all thier lives to "not worry about trace minerals".

Can't we all just get along ?

"Jaime R-S" wrote in message
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Its OK, if you come to this forum, we try to help with different views. I
am not a hobbyist, I am a marine biologist that tried to give you, or whom
ever asked, some advice from a different point of view.
If those same people that had been dealing with tanks all their lives were
successful, YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE to start with!
Now, have a nice day!

jrs


"Billy" wrote in message
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"Jaime R-S" wrote in message
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Those "trace minerals" as you call them, are in every food or living
organism that you feed to your fish. Don't worry about your trace
minerals, worry more about that PO4 that feeds the algae and spoils your
tank



Sometimes I wonder why I bother posting here. Why don't drop by reef
central or GARF sometime and tell people that have been caring for reef
tanks all thier lives to "not worry about trace minerals".

Don't you have some sandwich bags to wash
out or some coke cans to collect??

hehehehehehe ;-) jus kiddin

TheRock wrote:

Can't we all just get along ?




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"Jaime R-S" wrote in message ...
Its OK, if you come to this forum, we try to help with different views.
I am not a hobbyist, I am a marine biologist that tried to give you,
or whom ever asked, some advice from a different point of view.

What issues do you work with ? What is your professional experience ?

TMTC

jrs
"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"Jaime R-S" wrote in message
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Its OK, if you come to this forum, we try to help with different views.
I am not a hobbyist, I am a marine biologist that tried to give you,
or whom ever asked, some advice from a different point of view.

What issues do you work with ? What is your professional experience ?

There are hundreds of advanced aquarists that do not use trace
elements. Of these hundreds there are many that do not even do regular
water changes. There is a school of thought that trace element
supplimentation is not needed. (I don't happen to share in this
opinion, my tank has been doing MUCH better since I started regular
water changes!)

Replacing salt with what remains after evaporation is a bad idea. Some
salts do not remain stable through the process of evaporation and a lot
is lost in the process. (The main reason why we cant just evaporate
sea water and re-hydrate it for our tanks- it would not work well at
all.)

-Alfred