Phantom Phish
02-10-2005, 1:40 PM
I have recently been reading some of the posts on Reefcentral and TRT reagarding Oceanic salt and phosphates and/or perceived algae blooms.
A lot of the information in those posts is inconclusive in my opinion, and may be coincidental. But at least some seem to be from reasonable people who seem to have taken a more scientific approach and actually done some testing of freshly mixed Oceanic ASW, and found measurable phosphates, while others have found none. The speculation seems to be that there may have been some "bad batches" of Oceanic salt that got out into the marketplace.
I use both Insant Ocean and Oceanic salt in my system, and so I tested my nearly empty 200 gallon bucket of Oceanic salt, mixed at a SG of 1.025 with RO/DI water, and tested with Salifert Phosphate and Nitrate kits. I find no detectable phosphates or nitrates.
Before I go out and buy another bucket of Oceanic salt, I was wondering if anyone else here locally has tested their Oceanic salt, and found any of these nutrients?
A lot of the information in those posts is inconclusive in my opinion, and may be coincidental. But at least some seem to be from reasonable people who seem to have taken a more scientific approach and actually done some testing of freshly mixed Oceanic ASW, and found measurable phosphates, while others have found none. The speculation seems to be that there may have been some "bad batches" of Oceanic salt that got out into the marketplace.
I use both Insant Ocean and Oceanic salt in my system, and so I tested my nearly empty 200 gallon bucket of Oceanic salt, mixed at a SG of 1.025 with RO/DI water, and tested with Salifert Phosphate and Nitrate kits. I find no detectable phosphates or nitrates.
Before I go out and buy another bucket of Oceanic salt, I was wondering if anyone else here locally has tested their Oceanic salt, and found any of these nutrients?