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Extremely High Alk In Instant Ocean Salt
Just bought a bucket of instant ocean salt and made a fresh batch if 1.025ppt saltwater and the alk tested 16dkh!!
Has anyone seen or heard of this? Thanks |
Is it worth a 2nd test just to make sure?
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Could it be anything in part with the spring thaw?
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I've never kept track of a measured kh during the different seasons but I do know my own tap water has different characteristics during the spring thaw. Although I'd think this would more apply to freshwater tanks than salt as freshwater aquariums typically don't use RO water.
Was just spitballing. |
Roll your bucket ?
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IO did have issues a few years ago where alk was very high and killed a bunch of tanks. I would expect though, that they would not let that happen again. Where did you buy the salt? Maybe someone else has a bucket from the same batch they could test?
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happened to me as well - I was guilty of not knowing about the bucket rule. now that I do that, much better :)
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