Why not to use io salt

[Skimmer Juice]

agree with crimper should be easy enough to make some water test it and see what was actually wrong with the salt ! It could help somebody out who bought that salt from the sale. I have a couple buckets from the sale and have already done water changes in both my tanks . Thread tittle's like this could scare people away from using a great product . It would be nice to see what in the salt caused it if possible

[GoFish]

Touché to what Myka and crimper said.... I was thinking yesterday of posting the exact same thing as crimper. If I lived closer I would come grab some salt from that bucket before you throw it away. I trust your experience also spitfire but think it would really be beneficial for you to give a sample of that to someone to test if you don't feel like it yourself. Or send it in to IO like Myka suggested, I'll even offer to pay the postage if you're over it
Really sorry to see this happen to your tank
Pretty sure that's the most popular brand of salt and type of salt used, so it could have an impact on a lot of people who switch brands of salt too quickly now because they're scared of suffering the same fate as you.

So please help the community find a reason, if it takes me driving out there to grab a sample then so be it, if you're sure it was the salt.

[MKLKT]

Plus if you toss it and it turns out to not be the salt you haven't solved the Scooby mystery.

[gobytron]

Originally Posted by TimT

Assumptions/generalizations are always risky and usually incorrect. So there's a funny saying... Assume = making an ASS out of U and ME

Normally I'm very hesitant to blame salt or other types of additives as it's usually something the hobbyist did or something that happened to the tank. This situation is different though. Spit.fire is an experienced hobbyist and able to discern if it was the salt, the water, the mixing pump or something he did. When combined with my own personal experiences with this salt, my knowledge of how much freight is for salt and the price it is sold for. I think it's a 90%+ chance it's the salt, but no one can know for sure.

If the salt mix had ammonia contamination it could easily do to a tank what was reported


I use either D+D or Red Sea as they are made from evaporated ocean water.

Now who's making an ass out of u and me?

With no testing done, experience is irrelevant.

I think it's actually important to test this salt, many of us trust IO and have for a decade or more.

[TimT]

So before this gets out of hand due to mis understandings of intent and assumptions let me clarify and revise my thoughts and offer a suggestion to CanReef members and mods.

Originally Posted by Gobytron

Now who's making an ass out of u and me?

This was meant as a joke and not an attack. If I have offended you or anyone else I am sorry for that.

Originally Posted by Gobytron

With no testing done, experience is irrelevant.

I agree 100%. Testing is very important and will reveal a lot. An expert witness relies on their experience and also testing to back up their opinion. It was wrong of me to assume that straight experience was enough, no matter how much experience a person has.

Originally Posted by Gobytron

I think it's actually important to test this salt, many of us trust IO and have for a decade or more.

I agree.

My suggestion for community members and CanReef mods is this. Unless there is actual tests that reveal a problem with a product there should be no negative posts about that product. Mods should watch out for these posts and delete them as they occur.

Back to work...lunch breaks over. LoL