Tropic Marin salt

[kgstei]

Just a heads up. I saw a thread on Boston Reef Society that there may be a metsal contamination issue with their salt originating in Turkey

 

[Blitzie]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/pro-reef-salt-from-turkey.877589/post-9836577

 

[JMetaxas]

Wow, glad I'm a cheapskate and only use Reef Crystals.

 

[galantra]

Ugh now i gotta look at my buckets

 

[Tacticool-Reefer]

Crap!

I have buckets of the stuff have they posted the batch number yet?

 

[Tacticool-Reefer]

Found it:

(batch # 12944077 & 12944089) from BRS

 

[wonroc]

Thought this salt is made in germany

 

[debees5]

Found it:

(batch # 12944077 & 12944089) from BRS

Are those the only ones, is there a link?

 

[Tacticool-Reefer]

Are those the only ones, is there a link?

From what I’ve read anything that came from “Turkey” is suspect right now.

 

[John Neuzil]

You guys are a little late to the party lol

 

[tharbin]

Don't go batch number, there are a number of batches affected and probably many that have not been reported. If it's Made in Turkey, open it and smell it. German TMPR has very little smell and is pleasant. The "bad" Turkish batches have a distinctive smell usually described as Citrus, my wife thinks it smells like beach salt. If you still have some Made in Germany, compare them. It is clearly a different smell.

 

[Tacticool-Reefer]

Don't go batch number, there are a number of batches affected and probably many that have not been reported. If it's Made in Turkey, open it and smell it. German TMPR has very little smell and is pleasant. The "bad" Turkish batches have a distinctive smell usually described as Citrus, my wife thinks it smells like beach salt. If you still have some Made in Germany, compare them. It is clearly a different smell.

good to know, thx!!!

 

[DarfrogDojo]

That sucks. I just changer from Red Sea purple buckled to Tropic Marin pro and did my first water change this past week. I have a Germany bucket, and doesn't smell bad....and my corals look fine, except for a purple monti that is retracted and bleaching out all of a sudden. Can it be the new salt? I also dose All-for-Reef.

 

[Tacticool-Reefer]

That sucks. I just changer from Red Sea purple buckled to Tropic Marin pro and did my first water change this past week. I have a Germany bucket, and doesn't smell bad....and my corals look fine, except for a purple monti that is retracted and bleaching out all of a sudden. Can it be the new salt? I also dose All-for-Reef.

The old school of thought would say you should change salts slowly. In the past I’ve actually mixed different salts together but don’t recommend that anymore. If I were to change from one salt to another, I would mix the remaining salt in one bucket and the new salt and a different one all together. And use a small percentage of the new saltwater unit the remaining saltwater is depleted.

I not sure if that’s what you did or not but that’s what I would’ve done. As far as Tropics issues, they seem to be confined to the salts produced in the turkey facility and not anything from Germany.