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On Oceanic, What would you have to dose for to keep your water parameters they way they need to?

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It depends on your bio-load, and how often you do water changes. What sorts of corals are you keeping? How often do you do water changes? Really how often you supplement things like magnesium, calcium, strontium, etc depends on the demand placed on them by your tank. The only way to really know what your demand is, is to test your water and look for the trends in the numbers.
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I read throught he post and didnt see Coralife salt on there.  It is what I use and I have been very happy with it.  I have tried Oceanic and IO and I was having to dose like crazy.  So I went on line and looked and the salts properties and found the the mag and calcium of Coralife is higher then most and so I switched.  I cut the dosing and my corals grow at aroudn teh same rate that they were growing before.  I like it for that reason...
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My Oceanic saltss Calcium is 400-500 My calcium levels are always higher since using Oceanic
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I use Oceanic and I use Instant Ocean.  I love them both.  I mix both.  They balance each other out in my book.  Oceanic is high in Ca while Instant Ocean is high in Alk.  Best of both worlds without dosing.
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+1 Oceanic =)
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I have used corallife salt for a couple of years and I think I will be switching to Oceanic when I run out. Doing 20% water changes every month and I have to dose calcium and alk regularly on a tank with a light coral load. I never worried about trace minerals with the amount of water I was changing but after watching my corals not grow for a while I tested for Iodine/Iodide/Iodate and it was so low I couldn't measure it. I started dosing with the aquavitro vibrance and noticed a difference overnight. After two weeks of dosing my bta's even started bubbling again. Working at The Aquarium now, and they use oceanic for everything in the store. I have noticed it is definitely higher in calcium.
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Thanks everyone,
 I decided to go with Oceanic in 120gal. My old 75gal was Instant Ocean. Last week did a water change, yesterday alk. 8.2,  calcium 360 (low), mag 1140, nitrate 0, ammonia 0, PH 8., nitrite 0., phospate 0.  Fish an coral look good so far. 
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I have always done oceanic but I payed more than double the price to tye the new brightwell aquatics I have been happy with my past ersults and its not a wallet killer if you on a tight budget like me
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