Why not to use io salt

[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

[The Guy]

Originally Posted by 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

So where on the bucket do you find a batch #, there's a bunch numbers around the sque but it's the same # on all my empty buckets

[GoFish]

Originally Posted by The Guy

So where on the bucket do you find a batch #, there's a bunch numbers around the sque but it's the same # on all my empty buckets

It's the price tag looking sticker on the top of the lid. should be 14xxx or 15xxx depending on how long you've had it I guess

[The Guy]

Originally Posted by Vancity

It's the price tag looking sticker on the top of the lid. should be 14xxx or 15xxx depending on how long you've had it I guess

Thanks, there is a mostly wrecked unreadable sticker on the lid that ends with 61, that's all I can see. Not that it matters I guess, it is what it is I'm still using it.