Is This Salt Any Good?

[youngfisher]

Ok, so this is the salt im hoping to use to get my tank going is it any good (please tell me it is lol)

 

[Buddyboy67]

should do fine with that yf....mix up a small amonut and do some tests on it before putting in tank..then you'll know for certain

 

[youngfisher]

What should I test for?

 

[Buddyboy67]

test for phosphates mainly..if you got them try for magnesium and calcium as well but reef crystals should be good for these readings

 

[youngfisher]

Buddy, I have no RO water apart from the stuff im buying tommorow to actually fill the tank. So do you think that it will be ok? And am I right in thinking I just add salt then test the SG then keep adding to get it presise. Hopefully I wont go over SG as I dont have enough money to buy more RO water lol

 

[jtnova13]

that's a different looking reef crystals than the one i buy, but if it's the same thing/different package from what i'm told it's the high quality stuff.

I usually dump about 5 cups of salt in 5 gallons of water, test it, add more. But i have an endless supply of RO. I've never gone over though.

If you want to, test it after each cup... it's easy with your refractometer and uses basically no water.