Warning! Potential Problem with Kent Salt.

[Chad]

CR Brightwell <kentmarine@verizon.net>

They did not mention paying the costs of shipping, I assume they do not.

I have not tested my bucket from J&L yet. I got this one on boxing day. Anyone get theirs on boxing day with this issue?

[IslandReefer]

Just wanted to put in my 2 cents worth.
When ever I start a new bucket of salt, I test the Alk,Ca,Mg,pH at 1.025.
Doing this solves 2 common problems :
1) Is my test kit accurate and/or getting old....IO/Kent and many other salt mixes have their parameters published to compare to. If you do this for every bucket/box after a while you can see the variability in the salt QC and your testing....with good records this makes a measured salt mix a good standard for comparing test kits etc.
2) Find out about a bad bucket of salt before killing your reef!.....find out about that mixing screw-up ....before killing your reef.....find out about that bad electrode/test kit/uncalibrated refractometer....before!

This is a standard lab practice...I didn't realize it wasn't common with reefers.......esp after the IO high alk event! We use about 4 200gal buckets per year...making the extra test costs less than $10 GOOD insurance IMHO. and I highly recomend it.

Cheers John

[Ruth]

Boy I agree with John and is something that I always do as well. The IO event definately taught me the importance of doing this but it is also just good practice because if you have to adjust any of these levels it is far easier to do in your change water than to start mucking (sorry Ryan) with your display and chance getting everything out of whack there.