Why not to use io salt

[Bblinks]

Originally Posted by jorjef

Good god people he said it was the salt... There is no onus to proof, it's an opinion the can take it or ignore it. If people are so worried send your own salt away to get tested. As someone else said it doesn't seem to be a widespread epidemic so go on living your lives.

I got a lot invested in my tank so if there is bad salt circulating I would like to know....I am too chicken poop to be playing reindeer games with my tank.

[WarDog]

Originally Posted by Bblinks

I got a lot invested in my tank so if there is bad salt circulating I would like to know....I am too chicken poop to be playing reindeer games with my tank.

Agreed. I am mixing a batch right now, albeit and older bucket I've already used. I bought 3 buckets during the sale, so that's got me a little concerned.

Spit.fire , did you not even record the batch # for us?

[reefwars]

Anyone here selling IO for cheap??p

[reefwars]

You should all be weary of your salt and brands don't matter I've had customers return every type of salt for all sorys of reasons and even once salt had no salt measured with a refract... it had nothing so prob a bucket of chemicals , sure sucks to be on the end of that I use to think then it happened so often that I just assume salt QC is crap and take each bucket with caution most of us are very lucky but I'll say that bad salt is not uncommon at all

[GoFish]

Originally Posted by Bblinks

I got a lot invested in my tank so if there is bad salt circulating I would like to know....

This was my thinking from the beginning but doesn't look like an answer will come. I've given up waiting anyway...

I have a new question that hasn't been brought up

"How does someone dispose of 48lbs of salt?" Well subtract what was used for the water change

In my garbage can?
In my backyard?
Down the drain?
In the ocean?
In the river?
Take it to the dump?
Save it for de-icing the driveway?

There's only one question above that I could answer yes to. So what's the best way to dispose of that much salt, minus the bucket I hope cause that thing's recyclable

I will also be keeping and using my buckets, just merely wondering what others would do

[reefwars]

Go slug hunting lol

[GoFish]

Oooh good one too bad I only see about 5 of those a year

[reefwars]

Haha yeah that's about 1000 yrs worth of slugs ....back to the drawing board lol

[Aquattro]

I got rid of a bucket via the de-icing method.

[gregzz4]

I will keep using my IO, even with the last bucket I had reading #s too high for my liking. Batch # 14267
Rolled and tested for weeks - Alk 11.5+, Ca 410(good for us who dose), Mag 1650+(not good if you perform large WCs)
Salt was very dusty instead of powdery/grainy. Had to hold my breath while taking it from the bucket and adding it to the mixing tank - dust everywhere.
It also needed 7 cups instead of 6 cups to mix 12g of water. Obviously the salt was messed up. But it still never killed anything.

I turned off my Mag pump 6 weeks ago and have just turned it back on this week as it took 2 weeks for it to drop enough to start dosing again.

I test my new salt water before each WC to keep an eye on things and adjust it accordingly