Instant Ocean Reef Crystals Reef Salt For 160 Gallons, Enriched Formulation For Aquariums

This is the best aquarium salt mix on the market (for the price!).It isn't cheap, but this mix does its job a lot better than Marine Crystals. I can't speak for some of the premium brands that cost double what this does, but I can't imagine that they would be worthwhile investments. My reef tank appreciates the quality of the water, and I've had no issues getting the salt to dissolve by hand in just a few seconds.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Better price than at any store! If I ever have another saltwater tank will order this product.

Love this stuff! It is the only reef salt I use. I have a 125 gallon tank and it has been used for every single water change. Last a long while. I do less frequent water changes due to not having a huge bio load and a larger than necessary filtering capacity, and I supplement with other additives for the corals. Ive never had cloudy water from this, as long as you pre mix it for a couple of hours. I mix it in a 5 gallon bucket for 6-8 hours and then add it in.

As always good salt dissolves well.

Good price

Ok. I use this for my brackish water pond instead of straight sea salt as it has less NaCl and more MgCl and CaCl. Less NaCl is better for plants in the brackish aquarium and the higher mineral content is good for them. So reef salts are better for brackish tanks with brackish tolerant plants (Microsorum pteropus, Anubias spp., Cryptocoryne spp., Vallisneria spp, Ceratophyllum demersum , Najas guadalupensis, Lilaeopsis brasiliensis, Lemna minor, Aegagropila linnaei, Ceratopteris thalictroides, and Sagittaria subulata) that I have had success with salinities up to 10ppt.Like fish, the plants must be acclimated slowly (even more slowly than fish) unless they are mangrove plants that are tough as nails. I bought the SeaChem brackish salts and while they were friendlier for my plants I also had to use more to increase the salinity for the fish (scats, monos, archers, chromides, mollies, etc). If the primary focus is your fish with plants being secondary then either combine reef salts with some brackish salts or just use reef salts at a salinity that is good for the fish that the plants can also tolerate.If you are keeping your tank at 1.005 sg/7ppt (approx.) then maybe the Seachem brackish salts would be fine (you will still use more than the reef salt). However, at 7ppt using reef salts I have had no die-offs. I believe that even my monos and scats (my fish are between 6-8 inches and I see no ill-effect) will be fine as adults up to 10ppt using the reef salt along with the plants I listed above (my salinity fluctuates between 5-10 ppt as I have an outdoor pond and heavy rains and several days w/o rain can cause swings in salinity with the rise and fall of water volume). All-in-all you don't need the brackish salts and I think reef salts are better than normal aquarium sea salt for the planted brackish tank.Great info. My personal experience is that lemon bacopa does well only in low salinity (3ppt), along with water cabbage, african tiger lotus, and water spangles. Toughest (with changing salinity from 5-10ppt and temps from 68-92F) was valisneria, anubias, java fern, micro sword, java moss, guppy grass, hornwort, and wisteria. Emergent vegetation in my setup (2000gal outdoor, heated, green housed during Florida winter, pond) include mangroves (black, white, red, oriental), crinum, purple flag iris, giant leather fern, variegated pandanus and will be adding golden leather fern.

Great product split in four bags

This salt is the staple of all five of my saltwater aquariums. I’ve tried to switch before, and nothing grows coral better than Reef Crystals. I highly recommend this salt for all your reefing needs!-Reefer Matt