Why not to use io salt

[spit.fire]

All sps, half my lps, and almost all my inverts including my giant abalone, bristle worms, snails, conches, etc

[rsisvixen]

Was this the salt from the pet smart deal?

[gregzz4]

Holee crap

I had a bucket from KEs recently that must have been the dregs from their hoppers.
The big 3 tested off the charts through the whole bucket.
12.5
420
1650

Maybe you had an Alk spike ?

[NU-2reef]

Holy crap! That's devastating. What salt were you using before?

[spit.fire]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Holee crap

I had a bucket from KEs recently that must have been the dregs from their hoppers.
The big 3 tested off the charts through the whole bucket.
12.5
420
1650

Maybe you had an Alk spike ?

Alk spike shouldn't kill my snails

[Myka]

Oi! That's terrible! How did you come to the conclusion the salt did it? I'm not doubting you, I'm just wondering what exactly happened.

[canadianbudz604]

Why was it the salt? You've been in this hobby along time so what happened man?

[spit.fire]

Did a water change, woke up to dead stuff

[Myka]

Originally Posted by spit.fire

Did a water change, woke up to dead stuff

New bucket? I assume you checked all the other stuff like temperature and dosers functioning properly.

[Bblinks]

It's very seldom u hear some thing that drastic happens from using a bad batch of salt. Usually it's the more sensitive species that go first then if that triggers s mass die off it would still take more than just overnight. I have once changed my water with 40 gallons of fresh wartet not realizing until after that it was fresh, the salinity dropped a few points but luckily my tank volume compensated for it and everything pulled through. I am not saying that's what happened to you but who knows. I have always used io and knock on wood, I have never had any issues.

Sorry about your loses bud, No matter what it's still hard. I'll have some frags for you in a little bit.