Krish
RF STAFF
So... I was going to order my Instant Ocean from Premium Aquatics (like I usually do), but needed some ASAP so I bought (2) 50 gal bags of it here which costed me almost $80! As usual, I mixed my batch of make up water and ran a powerhead in it for 24 hours before doing my water change. I did my 20% water change today and when I poured in the new make up water, it looked like I dumped a bag of sand in my tank!!! Alot of the salt didn't dissolve and was scattered everywhere like sand! So, I had to shut everything off, let the salt settle on the bottom, and siphon up what I could and seeing the salt was obviously crap, I had to replace what I removed with just fresh ro/di water. I always check my specific gravity before my water change which was 1.026 (normal) and after this disaster, it was sitting at 1.022! So I guess my corals will have a nice shock and hopefully, nothing dies...:doubt:
So...I'm going to open up the other bag and see if that salt isn't crap as well. If it is, I have to keep my fingers crossed that my buddy finally got some in at his LFS that I can get tomorrow or else I'd have to next day air in some from PA. I put some of the salt from the bad batch in a gallon jug with some water and shook it up a few times to see what would happen and if it would dissolve. I did this a few times (shaking it up) over the course of an hour and here's what it looked like when I just checked it. Bummer!
Lesson of the day...Check your specific gravity/salinity of your make-up water before adding it to the tank even if you are use to mixing "X" number of scoops to "X" amount of gallons.
So...I'm going to open up the other bag and see if that salt isn't crap as well. If it is, I have to keep my fingers crossed that my buddy finally got some in at his LFS that I can get tomorrow or else I'd have to next day air in some from PA. I put some of the salt from the bad batch in a gallon jug with some water and shook it up a few times to see what would happen and if it would dissolve. I did this a few times (shaking it up) over the course of an hour and here's what it looked like when I just checked it. Bummer!
Lesson of the day...Check your specific gravity/salinity of your make-up water before adding it to the tank even if you are use to mixing "X" number of scoops to "X" amount of gallons.