在礁石制造商的这里，我们为涵盖新的，重要的重礁产品而感到自豪。但是，我们将举手举手，并承认ATI的这一四岁产品完全通过了大西洋的两边！
Readers will be aware of the many ways in which we can purchase and produce saltwater for our aquariums. We can buy a干盐混合物and mix it up ourselves, buy it ready-mixed from our lfs, or even buy natural seawater, but ATI’s Absolute Ocean looks intriguingly different.
Because Absolute Ocean isn’t any of the above, and instead, it’s an 8.3 times liquid concentrate (not a powder,) that you add to RO water to make instant saltwater. Casual onlookers may mistake larger bottles of the clear Absolute solution for ready-mixed saltwater, and smaller bottles for two-part, as each set comes with two identically sized clear bottles, parts 1, and 2. But it’s actually neither and instead, you type how much saltwater you want to make up, into an online calculator, the salinity you require, and the calculator tells you how much Absolute Ocean to add to it to achieve that. Here’s an example.
假设您想在水族馆上进行10加仑的水。首先，将其转换为升（38，），然后将其输入其网站上的ATI在线计算器。接下来，告诉计算器您希望盐水实现的盐度。ATI使用PSU或实用盐度单元，但是如果您不熟悉，则与PPT或每千零件相同。如果您不熟悉，请向下看refractometer并且大多数将在一侧（例如1.026）和另一侧的相应ppt显示特定的重力，例如35ppt。
这样做，您可以立即获得下面的结果，告诉您要添加多少RO以及相同的部分1和2，在这种情况下为33.44升RO，2.28升第1部分和2.28liters of part 2. Pour the RO into a container, pour in part 1, then part 2, and you’re done. It’s ready to use.
Homogeneity
If you get the amounts exactly right and if you use RO water with zero TDS, the calculator will also give you exact values of the water you’ve just made up, from KH and pH to major elements like calcium and magnesium and trace elements like Iodine. And they’re that sure of that at ATI that they recommend correctly mixed Absolute Ocean as even being suitable as a reference solution.
这样做的原因是，与干盐相比，ATI可以组成具有精确值的液体并进行ICP测试以确保。然后，您会收到精确的液体，然后可以根据这些值构建计算器。这也可以用干盐来完成，但是许多因素都会影响合成和蒸发盐混合，例如水分含量，混合的水平，以及在运输和存储期间重点和分离主要元素。
This is why some salt manufacturers have had issues sinceICP testing已广泛使用。您可以从一个桶中混合一批盐，另一桶从同一品牌的不同桶中混合，它们的ICP测试可能会有所不同。因此，小盒子或一桶干盐（并一口气使用所有盐）实际上是一个更好的解决方案，比购买公共水族箱（如公共水族箱）使用，而只是从顶部拿出一点。这是一个极端的例子，但是很容易想象某些元素是如何彻底混合或可能已经解决的。
But by making up the base as a liquid back at the factory ATI says the composition can be much more uniform and way more tightly controlled. Even right down to the addition of 1.5 millionths of a gram of Vanadium.
So why aren’t we all using Absolute Ocean? Some are, and some are very happy with it. The retailers we spoke to told us it’s a popular product. But it does still rely on you having RO water to hand meaning you’ll need anRO unitor to travel to buy RO from your lfs. And if you’re going to your lfs to buy Absolute OceanandRO water you may as well just buy the store’s own ready mixed saltwater. On the flip side is that if you already have an RO unit, you may as well use dry salt as when you get up to large quantities it’s more cost-effective. And the time saving versus waiting for the salt to dissolve doesn’t really matter if you plan ahead.
价格对比
We carried out a quick price comparison of Absolute Ocean in the UK market, versus natural seawater, versus dry, synthetic salt mix, versus store ready-mix. Two 10 liter (2.6 gals) bottles of Absolute costs £34.00 not including RO and can make up to 170 liters (45 gals,) of saltwater. That’s going to cost you about £200 in the leading brand of prepackaged natural seawater, and it compared very favorably to buying 180 liters ( 48 gals,) worth of synthetic salt, which came in at £33.00.
It compared really well to shop-made saltwater too, which came out at £38.50, so for the thinking reefer, (with an RO unit,) it’s a real contender because of its speed of mixing, purity, and potential, repeatable values.
And we haven’t really seen anything exactly like Absolute Ocean before either. B-Ionic Seawater Systemmakes up seawater using four parts – two parts dry and two parts liquid, but it’s not concentrated like ATI’s, and there’s more of a recipe to follow to make it.
因此，我们无法对该产品的潜力做出判断，因为它已经在重新保存全球市场已经四年了。我们也不需要猜测它的成功，因为它的制造商，批发商和零售商也已经知道。但是我们可以说，遗憾的是，在那个时候，它并没有改变大多数人为其水族馆消费盐水的方式。尽管有很多积极因素。
