Bad batch of Instant Ocean

[Megalodon]

Wendell, JL did have the same results as me, except they want to wait until tomorrow to test it again. I just bought it five days ago.

Right now I'm just doing a big water change with the new salt, tap water, and an hour of mixing time with powerheads. I'm assuming that the alkalinity in the salt isn't the only thing messed up so I just want to get as much of that old water out of my tank as possible. But it's so hard to get that much RO water on such short notice.

Another thing that sucks is I'm curing LR and it was in that water all week. Of course I didn't notice. Now it's really dieing off! Smelly.

I hope I'll be reimbursed somehow. But there's so much life probably dead now that you can't measure, like the little critters in my sand bed and LR.

Do you think it would have killed all the beneficial bacteria too?