Reef Keeper 18
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When is salt not good to use anymore? Because I found an open bag of reef crystals in my basement which is about a month old and it was all clumped. Is it still good to use in a water change?
Old salt?
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SPSkeeper
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The fact that it was in the basement scares me unless it is well kept up with no mold/mildew. Whatever moisture it picked up could have mold/mildew spores in it and that's just not a risk I'd be willing to take but that's just me.. Maybe some others can chime in and shed some light but it wouldn't be worth it having the unknown in the air molecules. They always say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Reef Keeper 18
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I'm running no skimmer and just can't get salt to do my weekly change untill Thursday which is like a week late. We have one of those things(complete mental block right now) that takes moisture out of the basement so we don't have mold or mildew or any of that bad stuff
Reef Keeper 18
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Yeah now that its mixed it just doesn't look quite right but that's because the salt concentration is 2x what it should be in the small bucket. I'll dilute it tomorrow morning and see how it looks after class
robert
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When salt is clumped from exposure to moisture - it is sometimes impossible to get the alk/calcium to fully dissolve and you end up with a cloudy mix with lower levels.
When you over-mix - add more salt to a gallon of water than you're supposed to - the same thing happens - you would have been better off adding the salt to the correct amount of water.
Check the levels in the mixed water before you add it to your tank.
SeahorseKeeper
Where's the mysis?
+1. I would definitely check the parameters before doing a water change with it. I actually test my water change water ever since I got burned from a bad batch of salt.
