Warning! Potential Problem with Kent Salt.

[untamed]

That is a huge problem for Kent. That is one ugly discussion. I have used nothing but Kent salt for 13 years. I guess I got lucky because I've only been using the 50 gallon bags and it didn't hit me. I've been very careless about measuring the freshly mixed SW.

I think the expensive question I'm asking is..."How could an error that significant happen?...and what does that mean for the less significant (but also important) elements of the salt?" It suggests to me that there is very poor quality control going on in their production, and that is enough to scare me away.

There is a huge level of trust that aquarists place in their salt manufacturer. I had assumed that the salt I was using was subject to testing such that something like this just could not happen. I was incorrect.

[Psyire]

Things aren't getting any better...

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...hreadid=766263

[Matt]

Scary thread, BUT I just tested the dregs from my mix from this recent group salt order. dKH is 9. I don't know if that is good enough, but it is within acceptable range, I think.

Again, KENT, 200g pail, Edmonton Group Salt buy, 9dKH

Matt

[Psyire]

Whew... that takes alittle off my mind. I plan to do some more testing as well, but perhaps they fixed the problem.

Thanks Matt.

[Psyire]

People have different opinions on where dKH should be, but 9 is more than acceptable.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Dang. Like so many other local reefers, we picked up a bucket of Yellow labelled Kent's at the Boxing Day sales. If it is a bad batch, Kent should really step up & replace people's buckets with good ones.

[Ruth]

Holy Cow! I was one of the unfortunate ones a few years ago that got in on the bad batch of Instant Ocean that had way too high of ALK. The reason that to this day I will not use Instant Ocean or Kent (because they were made by the same people) although that does not appear to be the case with this batch. There was such an outcry with the IO that they ended up sending out checks to people that had used this salt. I know that I got a check for around $1800 but it still did not compensate the pain and frustration of completely crashing my system. I actually got out of the hobby for over a year because of this.