Super deal on salt

k9anna · 03-03-2004, 05:42 PM

Went to Athens today and found the best deal in a while on salt. the Petland store there has the New Oceanic salt on Sale the 200 gal bucket was $39.00 plus 25% on that I paid $29.99 a bucket and got 2 buckets. better hurry

Rover · 03-03-2004, 07:23 PM

Let us know how the salt works out.

tobbob · 03-03-2004, 07:38 PM

Hey Glenn!
My salt from you is workin out fine!
Tnx for the killer deal on the aqualite.
Let me know when the 75 gal.RR tanks go on sale.
Mite drive up Sat.
Bob

bastion666 · 03-03-2004, 09:17 PM

Will that sale be on through the weekend? May have to make a trip to Athens and stock up on salt for my new tank.

k9anna · 03-03-2004, 09:21 PM

Don't know was there looking for sale saw the 39.99 price for the 200 gal bucket and was thinking that was a good deal went to check out and found out if your a petland member you get 25% off that price and that made it 29.99 that is a real good price and it looks like real good salt

wasabi · 03-03-2004, 10:12 PM

GLENN,please forgive my negligence i will get up to your store to say hello and pick up my salt .. im sure i waited way to long to remain a good faith purchaser of your wonderful deal to the group...for what its worth frank, i would be very careful about changing salt brands, especially all at once. it has led to many horor stories dealing with partial and even total tank wipeouts, personally i will stick to instant ocean... as far as i can tell it works for the majority. i have never heard of oceanic . if you do change into to it at least do it very slowly.

tdwyatt · 03-03-2004, 10:25 PM

According to sales rep from oceanic,

Quote:

"Oceanic is made in the same facility that the IO is made and uses the same process and formulation..."

I don't know if I believe this or not, as the only way this came out was when I mentioned that I preferred IO in the long run. Wade from the NC frag group also told me this, so I dunno, might be interesting to see if it is, would be nice to have someone run an analysis comparison, if any of you have access to a GC, I can tell you how to run a direct comparison.

HTH

tdwyatt · 03-03-2004, 10:27 PM

Maybe the guys at Marine Fish could wrangle a direct response from the Oceanic rep, mine is second hand...

atlaquaria · 03-03-2004, 10:30 PM

I will check on this with Oceanic. It is possible as it is the same way with Kent salt. Instant Ocean makes Kent's salt in their mixer and just adds a few extra ingredients. So basically they are the same thing. I will let you guys know what I find out.

traip93 · 03-04-2004, 06:01 AM

Do a Search on Reef Central, they had a lengthy thread on salt comparison. If you can't find the thread over there, just post the question and someone will direct you to the thread or other information.

Ray1214 · 03-04-2004, 06:43 AM

Just curious, has anyone been using that oceanic salt very long? It seems maybe two months ago is the first I ever heard of it. I did go between IO and Kent's, and It seemed like I had to dose calcium a bit heavier but didn't really have no bad side effects (couldn't find kent's anywhere at the time).

Ray

Lifestudent · 03-04-2004, 07:01 AM

The Kent sales rep told us at last August's meeting that their salt is produced at the same facility as IO, except they ship all of their ingredients to the facilty where they just mix/produce it.

Bob

Rover · 03-04-2004, 07:30 AM

Oceanic is a tank manufacturer, so it's highly unlikely that they are making their own salt. Whether or not IO is doing the production I haven't heard yet. I'll be attending the APPMA show in a week or so and will be making a point to stop by the Oceanic booth.