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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Dec 14, 2017 18:08:34 GMT -5
I don’t regularly talk with her directly so I figured I’d ask on here to see if anyone knows what the scoop is. Seems super odd that aquacorals would be dropping tropic Marin salt.
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Post by FJJoe on Dec 14, 2017 19:17:21 GMT -5
That's odd she has always sworn by tropic marin pro reef do you know what she is swapping to?
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Post by FJJoe on Dec 14, 2017 19:21:46 GMT -5
Just looked she swapped to red sea pro i wonder why after so long with tropic
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Post by nickidml on Dec 15, 2017 9:10:28 GMT -5
Did anyone see her last email which talks about her deciding to PROMOTE testing water parameters, a change in her "method". Wonder if her tropic salts has anything to do with that?
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Post by Syntax on Dec 16, 2017 18:04:17 GMT -5
Odd that she would preach Tropic Marin Pro Reef for years and now change over to RSCP... Could these two salts be any more different, especially with alk. Not a big deal at all because she can do what she wants; however, she would push her way as the only and right way of doing things. Interesting.
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Post by yellowtang on Dec 31, 2017 17:29:14 GMT -5
Tropic Marin salt was making her corals die and she didn't know why her helper convinced her to check her water she did and discovered the tropic Marin salt had dangerously low parameters of calcium magnesium and Kh she contacted Tropic Marin and they sent new salt that was just as bad so she dumped them.
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Post by yellowtang on Dec 31, 2017 17:29:45 GMT -5
I checked my tropic marin salt it was terrible too. Had to add KH to mixing salt
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Dec 31, 2017 19:22:17 GMT -5
Tropic Marin salt was making her corals die and she didn't know why her helper convinced her to check her water she did and discovered the tropic Marin salt had dangerously low parameters of calcium magnesium and Kh she contacted Tropic Marin and they sent new salt that was just as bad so she dumped them. Wow, surprised it took so long but glad she finally checked. I tried for the longest time to get her to pay closer attention to her water parameters with little success. I stopped using tropic marin pro reef years ago because of the low Alk. Hopefully things turn around for her. |
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Post by scoobnoob on Dec 31, 2017 22:43:35 GMT -5
How low is the alk in tropic marin?
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Dec 31, 2017 23:19:42 GMT -5
I used to get a lot of buckets that were 7dkh or less.
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Post by yellowtang on Jan 1, 2018 9:47:35 GMT -5
She said that she noticed something for a little over a year. The dkh was the worst out of the three major ones, it varied a lot and sometimes was decent and sometimes was around 5 depending on batch.
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Post by scoobnoob on Jan 3, 2018 20:21:10 GMT -5
Just a thought. I remember starting and she encouraged a salinity of 1.024. I wonder if mixed to 1.026 of the alk would still be that low.
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Post by spotfin on Jan 4, 2018 8:00:35 GMT -5
How does salinity affect alk?
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Post by maineultraclassic on Jan 4, 2018 10:01:29 GMT -5
It takes more salt mix for the higher salinity, which in turn would add more alk to the water.
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Post by spotfin on Jan 4, 2018 21:34:43 GMT -5
Would the difference between 1.024 and 1.026 be significant enough? Someone should test it.
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