Yup. I’m telling you I got a bad batch of tropic Marin . I’m ticked right now and I have two zoa heads coming on Wednesday ***
They won't care about the alk being low.
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Yup. I’m telling you I got a bad batch of tropic Marin . I’m ticked right now and I have two zoa heads coming on Wednesday ***
i calibrated my refractometer and the salinty is 1.026 on the dot.. i shook the salt bag as well.. i cracked open a new batch of the tropic marin and i mixed it in colder water as opposed to warm water and now it came out to 6.5 which even tho is better its not 7-8 like suggested on the bucket... this is very confusing... idk if its the cold water that helped it or the new bucket of salt. im so confused. I had absolutely no issues with the cheap reef crystals salt and i decide to go with one of the best salts and im having issues... makes me laugh... anyway idk what else to do.. im wasting all this money in water, reagents, and salt...not cool.... i will bring a sample of my water to test at my LFS tomorrow ...Again yours zoas are not going to die!
Did you roll your salt around and mix it? Salt settles and if not mixed before use can mix up to the wrong parameters.
You can just go buy some 2 part and dose the parameters up.
I am not saying to not being your parameters up to a more acceptable range but just an example of a beautiful tank where the alk runs 4.8-5.6. Corals don’t just up and die from low alk. I ran mine at 5.0 for a long time and I have a mix of SPS, LPS, and softies. There is no reason to panic about the zoa.
I would check your salinity with a second source like a calibrated refractometer and if it is correct then bring your alk up slowly with 2 part. The salt is still usable but you will want to test and being the alk up In the mixing bucket before the water change to match whatever parameter you decided to dose the DT up to.
Yes, Hannah digital testers can be off so definitely check it. Low salinity would concern me more than low alk.
i calibrated my refractometer and the salinty is 1.026 on the dot.. i shook the salt bag as well.. i cracked open a new batch of the tropic marin and i mixed it in colder water as opposed to warm water and now it came out to 6.5 which even tho is better its not 7-8 like suggested on the bucket... this is very confusing... idk if its the cold water that helped it or the new bucket of salt. im so confused. I had absolutely no issues with the cheap reef crystals salt and i decide to go with one of the best salts and im having issues... makes me laugh... anyway idk what else to do.. im wasting all this money in water, reagents, and salt...not cool.... i will bring a sample of my water to test at my LFS tomorrow ...
i calibrated my refractometer and the salinty is 1.026 on the dot.. i shook the salt bag as well.. i cracked open a new batch of the tropic marin and i mixed it in colder water as opposed to warm water and now it came out to 6.5 which even tho is better its not 7-8 like suggested on the bucket... this is very confusing... idk if its the cold water that helped it or the new bucket of salt. im so confused. I had absolutely no issues with the cheap reef crystals salt and i decide to go with one of the best salts and im having issues... makes me laugh... anyway idk what else to do.. im wasting all this money in water, reagents, and salt...not cool.... i will bring a sample of my water to test at my LFS tomorrow ...
Yes. My tank is now 6.0 but the salt is still mixing way too low of an alk. I’ll verify at LFS tomorrow… for an expensive salt this is unacceptable.Sorry if I missed it, but did you mix 1/2 cup of TMP per gallon of water and then measure the 1.026 SG and 6.5 Alk? If so, you salinity measurements are probably good. Then you just need to validate the Alk at the fish store.