bad salt?

[nazzman]

I have noticed sharp decline in color and bleeching in my sps corals and lps corals losing color all my parameters have been evan and steady opened new bucket coral pro salt and feel thats when things went south I bought all new test kits was drivning me nuts new salt and couple of water changes and things starting to look better how many of you had same issue?

 

[Frick]

It's not bad salt, but it must be used with in a few hours after mixing. I have seen a few people with this issue but turns out that they mixed it for too long and the minerals started to precipitate and collect on the bucket walls and pump. So they were basically adding a salt mix with depleted trace elements causing a swing in all the parameters to the low end. This can happen with any salt but seems to be the most noticeable with the RS Coral Pro. It's still great salt tho.

 

[ontop27]

Never heard this before?? Almost everyone I've ever talked to let's new mixed water sit over night myself included. And have had much better results since I started doing that three years ago.

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[Eienna]

Did you stir the bucket before using? Salt mix can experience some settling/separation; this will cause wacky params.

 

[ontop27]

It's not bad salt, but it must be used with in a few hours after mixing. I have seen a few people with this issue but turns out that they mixed it for too long and the minerals started to precipitate and collect on the bucket walls and pump. So they were basically adding a salt mix with depleted trace elements causing a swing in all the parameters to the low end. This can happen with any salt but seems to be the most noticeable with the RS Coral Pro. It's still great salt tho.

And another thought.. Why wouldn't it do the same thing in an acrylic tank

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[Cooterbrown]

And another thought.. Why wouldn't it do the same thing in an acrylic tank

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because the water is moving? good question. i don't fall for the use it faster theme. I've stored water for weeks before and never had any issues.

 

[nazzman]

I use a small pump in container to mix let sit overnight have a little build up on container but norm for me and never an issue in the past using red sea 2years now