Anyone's latest black bucket of red sea coral pro salt have the brown sludge?

[shwareefer]

I've been using this salt for more than 2 years and it always mixed clean and clear. Now the latest bucket has the brown sludge in the mixing pail like IO does. I'd reference a batch number except it is blank and I just realised the 5 or 6 empty buckets I have are also blank which is less than helpful.

 

[alabella1]

yup. Going back to IO purple

 

[HB AL]

Nope, but I don't buy em often since I don't do water changes, just use it occasionally to keep salinity stable.

 

[alabella1]

Anyone need a 200 gal bag of Coral Pro? I don't want it anymore and never opened it

 

[blaxsun]

 

[Orko]

I got a bag of that salt and all I have been having since I started using it is problems!

 

[piranhaman00]

I read so many stories like these with “high end” salts having sludge , plaster, bad quality ect. Why don’t people use regular IO? I’ve never had or heard of issues and it’s cheap. Sigh don’t understand

 

[shwareefer]

I read so many stories like these with “high end” salts having sludge , plaster, bad quality ect. Why don’t people use regular IO? I’ve never had or heard of issues and it’s cheap. Sigh don’t understand

I used IO for many years and always had the sludge but I also sometimes let it mix for days before I would use it. I also never had any problems. I tried the Red Sea and I like how fast it goes clear and how fast they want you to use it - .5 to 4 hours. It's still dissolving fast but now leaves the sludge in the bucket. I'm on my 4th or 5th water change and no problems otherwise.

 

[piranhaman00]

I’ve never seen sludge with IO I mix and use in 15 minutes with cold water no issues

 

[blaxsun]

From everything I've read, Red Sea salt is more natural and can have a bit more coloration or "sludge" to it than other salt mixes. I still use Tropic Marine Pro-Reef (German). It mixes crystal clear and can be kept mixed for long periods of time.

 

[Mr Cypher]

Just switched to TM pro reef, way better lol that sludge sucked had to scrub every time I made a new batch