Damn! Sorry to hear that! That totally sucks! Thanks for the heads up!

sorry to hear, that really sucks. Nothing is reliable and safe any more. There must be something in that salt that can make things go bad so quick

Keep in mind that there is an excellent chance that what happened was just co-incidental with the use of that bucket of RC salt.
If it wasn't, the store has likely sold a lot of that batch and if no one else is reporting wipe outs, then I'd be looking for some other cause, just in case.

Holy Crap!
Thanks for the heads up!

I have 10-15 gallons of Seachem mixed up if you need it or are you picking up skeletons at this point?

I'm sorry for your loss!

I have a bucket of that batch I bought from petsmart. I havent started my reef tank yet but started my qt 2 weeks ago, it is still cloudy.
Is there a way to test the salt before setting up my DT tank with it just in case? Even if there is the slight chance it is a bad batch I don't want to start out with a catastrophe. :)

Well,its a 100% loss of my LPS collection. The only thing left that is alive are my purple deaths. I took a quick pic what is left from about 30 or so colonys.

before.
http://s251.photobucket.com/albums/g...es168/a002.jpg

as of this morning
http://s251.photobucket.com/albums/g...s168/dead1.jpg

What it looked like before
http://s251.photobucket.com/albums/g...es168/a006.jpg

and now
http://s251.photobucket.com/albums/g...s168/dead2.jpg
http://s251.photobucket.com/albums/g...s168/dead3.jpg

The system in question has been running for over 4 years. I have not added any new fish since then. I have not added any coral since sept of last year. All my parameters are in check. I always keep on top of my tank maintenance. ALL my LPS was healthy untill I did my water change with this salt. There is absolutely no question that there is something wrong with this batch of salt. Just check on RC board. There are already people with the same issues as me.

If it's still cloudy 2 weeks after... then you definitly have an issue. Bad salt or poor filtration, whatever is causing it, you need to do something about it for sure.

I would dump that pail and buy a new one.

Thanks, Ill do that especially after seeing those pics! What a kick in the.....head.

I wonder if this is proved in some way.... what would Instant Ocean do?

I'd take pics of everything you lost and fight to have them replace it!

You'd think that they would have some sort of quality control in place so that this crap dosn't happen.

Truly dreadful. :( You had a stunning collection.