Brightwell NeoMarine Salt - Burning Issue

[jsbzcmcdaniel]

I need some help. I dont know if this is normal but I have not encountered this before. I was mixing up a new batch of salt and opened a new bucket of Brightwell NeoMarine Salt. I scooped up some salt from a glass measuring glass that I always use. I scooped some salt and I started to feel heat and burning from my hand. It almost felt like I lit a match and put it on my skin. I scooped the salt into my mixing station and I heard a sizzle sound. This is my third buck of NeoMarine salt and I dont recall ever hearing this. I asked my wife to sift some salt in her hands and she experienced the same thing. I recorded the sizzle sound in a glass of water for your review. Has anyone experienced this before?

Guys -

 

[jsbzcmcdaniel]

I just opened another bucket and the same thing happened. I opened a third bucket and no sizzle sound at all.....Something is seriously wrong with these three buckets of salt. Its almost like acid or something

 

[Crabs McJones]

It's actually noted in the instructions;

Mixing Instructions

Do not mix in an aquarium containing live organisms. NēoMarine creates slight heat when mixed into water; therefore, do not handle dry NēoMarine with wet hands. NēoMarine may have a slight sulfurous odor when the container is first opened; this is a result of the use of anhydrous magnesium chloride and will dissipate.


Hope this helps

 

[jsbzcmcdaniel]

Understand not mixing in an aquarium and temp increase but something doesn't seem right. I have never had any salt react to water the way this has. The salt has no smell at all and my hands were bone dry when I contacted it. I have three buckets now that create the sizzle reaction and another one that does not.

 

[jsbzcmcdaniel]

Ok, so based on the lack of responses this is normal I take it? There has to be someone else that uses NeoMarine that either gets the same reaction of doesn’t.

 

[NeedMoreReef]

I switched to neo marine . salt and have noted some heat upon mixing. Kinda the same when I make my 2 part and Mg solutions. I’ve done several water changes and have not noticed anything negative. I add 1/2 cup at a time into 20gallons RO/DI.

 

[jsbzcmcdaniel]

Does the salt react to water the same as in my video? I have three buckets that do and one that barely does.

 

[joseserrano]

It’s low in water. The chemicals they use are of a higher purity than other salts, so when mixed what you are experiencing is normal. They word for it starts with an a.

 

[NeedMoreReef]

Does the salt react to water the same as in my video? I have three buckets that do and one that

I can’t say if it does. I mix into large brute trash can, not a cup of water. Lol

I wouldn’t worry about the salt. Mix up amount for 5percent water change. Mix over night. Test alk , ca, mg just to be sure.

 

[bigcheese]

It’s low in water. The chemicals they use are of a higher purity than other salts, so when mixed what you are experiencing is normal. They word for it starts with an a.

Anhydrous. Naturally-formed magnesium chloride forms a crystal around water molecules (hydrous), chemically (or thermally) created magnesium chloride lacks the h2o in the center.
The hydrous form is the more stable, natural form. Anhydrous is very chemically reactive and will rapidly decompose to the hydrous form (or dissolve), even by absorbing water from the air (or water from the skin cells on your hand).
The reaction can be quite exothermic, too. Ask anyone up here in the great north about what kind of salt to use on a driveway when it's -25 or colder... there's only one that works- MgCl2, and you can hear it popping and hissing as it tears through ice.
I suspect the one bucket that's not as reactive was exposed to moisture, even high humidity will convert it to the hydrous form. Nothing wrong with it, it just may take a few more minutes of mixing to get it dissolved.
@jsbzcmcdaniel Just no more experiments on bare skin, OK? You can legitimately damage yourself.

 

[Jesse571]

I need some help. I dont know if this is normal but I have not encountered this before. I was mixing up a new batch of salt and opened a new bucket of Brightwell NeoMarine Salt. I scooped up some salt from a glass measuring glass that I always use. I scooped some salt and I started to feel heat and burning from my hand. It almost felt like I lit a match and put it on my skin. I scooped the salt into my mixing station and I heard a sizzle sound. This is my third buck of NeoMarine salt and I dont recall ever hearing this. I asked my wife to sift some salt in her hands and she experienced the same thing. I recorded the sizzle sound in a glass of water for your review. Has anyone experienced this before?

Guys -

This happens to my new bucket I just opened but never before in the last 4 years of using it!?

 

[Jesse571]

Ok, so based on the lack of responses this is normal I take it? There has to be someone else that uses NeoMarine that either gets the same reaction of doesn’t.

I get the very same reaction in my last 2 buckets but never before in the last 4 years.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I get the very same reaction in my last 2 buckets but never before in the last 4 years.

They use anhydrous ingredients and the heat is the chemical heat of hydration of some of these.

Not sure why you didn’t see the same before. Perhaps the latest batches were dryer than previous ones.