Just wanted to inform everyone that I went to Petsmart this weekend and they are having a "clear the shelving" sale on Coralife salt products. I believe it was $33 for a 5-gallon bucket. They were also running a sale on IO 5-gallon buckets at $35 each through 11/27.

well my bucket of coralife salt came in today. i am switching to it from reef crystals. i am making up 5 gallons right now for a water change with it. i am going to mix to 1.025 at 77 F. i will post the calcium, alk, and ph when it is ready. i liked how well it was packaged. a bucket with three...

Aquarium Oddities is offering a preorder on 150g Coralife Salt Buckets for $39.99!!! You must prepay in order to get this deal and I'll probably be ordering it by Monday Feb 23rd. This salt actually is really concentrated, more so than any other salt, so you actually should get more than 150...

Any interest in going in on a group order from either of these places? I'll decide by Thursday which place I want to order from and I'll let you all know. I need to get some salt, a power compact bulb, and a submersible heater. I definitely need some more salt - I use Coralife. The power...

okay, i've been reading a bunch of posts explaining on why snowstorms happen :) and i understand what is happening. however, i do not understand why i'm getting one while i try to boost Ca/Mg/ALK levels of freshly mixed IO. this is what i'm doing; - mix IO salt in old IO bucket filled with...

the side of the red sea pro salt bucket says that a level of 450ppm of calc will be at 1.022 and the higher the SG the higher the calc level goes. I kept my SG at 1.024 so i have a calc level of 520ppm. This was checked with a api kit and verified with sailfert so i know its right. And it is the...

Well, it's confession time. I have had my tank up and running for a year and a half or so. I had test strips at one time but not for quite a while. I'm upgrading to a 75 and would like to start testing like I should. I will have just a few fish (large bossy false perc which was a b'day gift...

Hello For some reason I am having an extremely difficult time in raising my ph past 7.8 and 8.0. I am adding seachem's liquid maine buffer but it is not going up. Any suggestions???? And if so what product works well at bringing it up and staying at around 8.3? Thanks a mill, Mike

Hello All. Been following this and other reef/marine forums for almost a decade now. Have a 46gallon bowfront, with alot of equiptment I purchased over that period of time, sitting as a decoration in my living room. Well, to make a long story short, wife says "I'm tired of looking at air in...

I'm looking into some stuff to suggest we carry at work for products, we have mostly API and Wardley stuff.... we have no reef additives, no salt water meds, and we don't have a line of SW foods other than Sally's Frozen (which is great stuff).... I was hoping to pick some brains and get...

I just checked my Ca levels, and they are at about 470. I know that is to high, but do I need to act on it right away, or let it drop gradually?

I feel intimitated just throwing this out there for some reason but I really do want to be successful with my tank and it's inhabitants. I also need to spend my $ very wisely so in order to accept help from all you great folks, here goes. I'll add as I figure things out. I've had this setup with...

Now that I'm switching over from a FO tank to a reef tank, I thought I'd get some more specialized test kits and yesterday I did my first round of tests. The only one which was a little fishy the way the test went was Strontium, so I'm not 100% sure that one's accurate. Here's the results...

I have inherited a 125G Acrylic Bow front corner tank. The old set up had 100 lb LR, a Mag Drive pump using wet-dry filter under the stand. There were 2 Perculas, 1 Hippo Tang,1 Imperator Angel, 1 Royal Gramama(?) and 4 Green Chromis. First I had to repair multiple scratches with 2000 to 1200...

This past Sunday after having my hands in my saltwater tank for 2-3 hours... I noticed some vision problems that came out of nowhere. While walking around my house, the air around my lamps or any light source looked like it had MIST or SMOKE surrounding it. I confirmed with my wife that I was...

ok so at my lfs today i got into a conversation with the guy there about different kinds of salt. i had always used coralife instant ocean, then i saw coralife reef crystals, and the guy told me red sea made the best salt via some testing someone did or whatnot. so i got the red sea(wasnt much...

Since I got my test kit the The calcium keeps climming 10-14-06***400ppm May be inaccurate do to not shaking the test sulotion vile. 10-15-06***500ppm 10-19-06***540ppm The KH stays the same. For the most part all other levels are staying the same. Its a 29 gall tank 30 with filters. The...

I'd thought I'd kick this off by asking each of us to decribe our current systems and share in plans for future ones as well. I have a Oceanic 70T/RR with stand I purchased while I was down in Houston for school. It's lit with a 150w MH x 2-65w PC actinic pendant. Not quite sure about the...

This is a touchy subject I know, but I just need some advice. I need to buy more salt mix. I currently use IO. Should I keep up with that, or switch to something else? Thanks, Frank

Well its payday tomorow and that means fish store trip. Well after a scary week of ammonia spikes and the loss of a few things, i need to take a trip to lfs. I have been told that coralife salt isnt the greatest, so i need help on which is. I have the choice of instant ocean/reef crystals/red...