Salt brands

ChicoRaton

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Is Coralife salt any good? At my LFS we have it for $10 per 50 lb bag, and my employee discount on top of that. I figure $50 worth should last a while in my 5.5 gal nano. ;) Is it worth paying twice as much to get a different brand? I know we never sell much of any other brand, but do sell a lot of the coralife... perhaps that's because we have a huge pallet of it at $10 per bag...anyway just want to know if it's decent stuff.
 
According to this comparison, coralife looks awful. Higher silicate, nitrate and phosphate than just about any other brand. Plus, instead of using carbonate as the primary buffer (see the low carbon content), they use borate. It will buffer, but will do nothing to help maintain coral skeletons.

There is a more thorough analysis out there somewhere, but I can't find it anymore.
 
ew. good to know.
 
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