Tropic Marin Recall

[Rhino]

See below, seems to be a popular salt here. Not sure how many of you use “Turkish blend”.

Tropic Marin Halts Production of ‘Turkish Blend’ of Pro-Reef Salt Mix | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

Turkish Blend usually engenders a connotation of fine tobacco or strong coffee but the term is coming to mean something very different for one flavor of Tropic Marin’s popular saltwater mixes.

reefbuilders.com

 

[lapin]

Maybe the bucket plastic too not just the salt inside

 

[happyhourhero]

I haven’t seen where they have made an official recall. I have seen lots of folks who have had issues though.

 

[MaxTremors]

They’re not doing a recall, they’re just suspending manufacturing g at their Turkish facility. They’re not going to admit liability for something so hard to prove, lol.

 

[ingchr1]

Tropic Marin posted the statement in a couple of threads on the issue:

Post in thread 'Pro Reef salt from Turkey' https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/pro-reef-salt-from-turkey.877589/post-9836577

Post in thread 'Calling On Tropic Marine For Help!!!' https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/calling-on-tropic-marine-for-help.876031/post-9836580

 

[Frogspon]

 

[Acros]

Importantly, we have no evidence that these insoluble clay minerals, causing the cloudiness, are harmful to the animals.

 

[ZoWhat]

Lawyer up with a lawyer that speaks German

 

[Johnny_Reefer]

So how do you know if your bucket came from Turkey or Germany. I'm a bit suspicious on what I have. My first tank and got a bucket of TM Pro for a great deal in November. My tank has been running for a month. Everything started great. Just today I noticed the corals are taking a turn for the worse after thriving for the first 2 weeks in the tank.

Do I have a bad batch or does Made in Germany mean Made in Germany?? How can I confirm, I see nothing on the bucket but this. No batch or dates.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ChiCity]

So how do you know if your bucket came from Turkey or Germany. I'm a bit suspicious on what I have. My first tank and got a bucket of TM Pro for a great deal in November. My tank has been running for a month. Everything started great. Just today I noticed the corals are taking a turn for the worse after thriving for the first 2 weeks in the tank.

Do I have a bad batch or does Made in Germany mean Made in Germany?? How can I confirm, I see nothing on the bucket but this. No batch or dates.

Thanks in advance.

these are the faulty ones…

… your bucket literally says “made in germany”

 

[FishyFishFish]

If it’s from Turkey then it says so on the bucket. Yours is from Germany.

The batch number is on a sticky label somewhere on the bucket.

I would look elsewhere for your problems.

 

[Johnny_Reefer]

these are the faulty ones…

… your bucket literally says “made in germany”

Thought so, just wanted to confirm. Thanks for the quick reply!

 

[Rickster1334]

Just got a call from my LFS on recall and taking it back this weekend

 

[ProxyAquarist]

If it’s from Turkey then it says so on the bucket. .....

So basically they added new meaning to the phrase, "It's a Turkey !!!"

Yours in ionic chemistry, irony, and idiocy,
Jim

 

[Brzez61]

See below, seems to be a popular salt here. Not sure how many of you use “Turkish blend”.

Tropic Marin Halts Production of ‘Turkish Blend’ of Pro-Reef Salt Mix | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

Turkish Blend usually engenders a connotation of fine tobacco or strong coffee but the term is coming to mean something very different for one flavor of Tropic Marin’s popular saltwater mixes.

reefbuilders.com

So, they say its just the Turkish salt that has issues? I have the German Salt and also use the All for Reef additive - They both have brown crap floating in my Salt bin and Dose container! what do you make of this? I just cleaned the salt bin and this is a fresh batch. The BRS guys say this stuff was crystal - Not what I see.

 

[CK00020]

Mine was never crystal clean in my mixing barrel, I always cleaned it once a year. The Turkish stuff seemed dirtier than usual, I have an opaque mixing barrel and I could just tell by looking at it.

 

[Lokipsl]

I switched to TMP in June 30th, My reef journal states that signs of LPS tissue recession began July 27th. Things started to turn around after I switched salts a couple of months ago. Could be unrelated. Hopefully this will lead to better manufacturing oversight from all our suppliers. One can wish

 

[Trucker Den]

Pharmaceutical grade? . They should be ashamed of them selves for not removing that in the description!! Seems like false advertising.

 

[blaxsun]

They're calling this "Turkeygate". Seems fitting. I have two pails: one from Germany and the other from Turkey which is going back on Tuesday.

Tropic Marin should've issued a full recall no questions asked. Didn't they learn anything from Dieselgate?

Admins: How do we get this stickied to make Tropic Marin users aware of this?

 

[Cjeippert]

I switched to TMP in June 30th, My reef journal states that signs of LPS tissue recession began July 27th. Things started to turn around after I switched salts a couple of months ago. Could be unrelated. Hopefully this will lead to better manufacturing oversight from all our suppliers. One can wish

Interesting that I also noticed problems in lps and nps tissue recession and death in larger colonies. Sps continued to thrive tho.