Chief Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Looking for interest in doing our own salt study. I have read many salt studies, but they never seem to be studying the salt that I am using. Currently I am using OceanPure and I haven't seen a study on it yet. There are some new salts out there that would benefit from this also. Here is the only catch. To perform a good salt study all the tests would have to be on the same platform. Every test would have to use the same kind of test kits. So this is how I would like to start this thread... What brand of salt do you use and what test kits are you using. Also how are you measuring salinity? Tempurature? I'll go first: OceanPure salt Salifert test kits for Alk and Calc Hagen Master test kits for everything else ( waiting for them to dry up and buy Salifert ) Refractometer regular glass thermometer Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
180Brandy Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 We use pacific coast salt All of our tests are Salifert: Alk,Cal,Mag, ect.... We use a portable refractometer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sknoch78 Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 OceanPure All Salifert kits Refractometer Digital thermometer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 We're about to see the results of Borneman/MARSH's study. Are you sure you want to take this on right now? Maybe pick something that isn't currently undergoing the most thorough blind study the hobby has ever seen.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mbeef61 Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 instant ocean or reef crystals....i see alot of people are using oceanpure...never heard of it...i have never had any probs with IO...has anyone else... salifert test kits....although i like seachem reef status too. for cal, alk, mag miluakee refractometer temp controller and extra little digital thermometer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyles Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Sea Chem reef and OI salt Refractometer Digital thermo Salifert test kits. (alk, cal, mag, ph04) Gereric store bought for the rest of my test kits. (no3, no4, ammonia and ph) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowboardKid26 Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Corralife all salifert except Seachem reef staus Ca Refractometer Glass therm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitterbait Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 I don't have any money but my master bedroom is now the fish room and i would be willing to donate space to the project if you decide to go through with it. I am also just about to sign another year lease. I also have r/o, a refractometer, and may have enough whisper HOB filters to run 5-6 tanks (10g i assume) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Posted September 16, 2006 Author Share Posted September 16, 2006 Definitely not a major salt study here. I would just like to get some levels on some of the salts that I never see in the big salt studies. Every study has the big names in salt. I don't want to exclude them and they should be there for comparison. Ideally this should be in a controlled setting that could be duplicated. But I would also be interested in how different test kits test the same batch of water. We will have to see if this is going to be feasible. I am just gauging interest now. Thanks for stepping up to the plate Ryan. Maybe we can get this study off the ground. Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyles Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 I have a bag of sea chem, red sea, and IO for you sitting. Let me know when you want it. I can get some others as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitterbait Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 I have a 6' shelving unit with 3 shelves. We can split up the maintenance duties but the question is how in depth do we want to go and are we planning on including livestock? I have a computer and the office suite and can throw together an excel sheet for the numbers and analysis. we should probably get together a list of what we want to find in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael7979 Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 J what about this. If we can get members to bring a small portion of their salt to a meeting and get someone to bring a refractometer, have a small 10 gallon tank of RO water at temp, and maybe get LFS to donate test kits. We could test them all right there after being made up. Betcha Roger might even do it as a class project if we supplied the materials. Just a thought As a bonus we would helping out with education too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Posted September 19, 2006 Author Share Posted September 19, 2006 J what about this. If we can get members to bring a small portion of their salt to a meeting and get someone to bring a refractometer, have a small 10 gallon tank of RO water at temp, and maybe get LFS to donate test kits. We could test them all right there after being made up. Betcha Roger might even do it as a class project if we supplied the materials. Just a thought As a bonus we would helping out with education too. I like that. I'll run it past Roger and see what he thinks. It would make a great class project. We could post the results in the educational portion of the site and write an article on the results. Nothing too fancy. I think many reefers would like to know the levels of some of the lesser known salts and how they compare to the more well known brands. Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowman Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 I just made up a new batch of water. I'm using Oceanpure Pro for the first time, here are my results using all Salifert kits: temp- 78 SG- 1.024 Mg- 1350 KH- 8.0 Ph- 8.2 Ca- 400 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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