Problems with Kent salt

[BMW Rider]

There was the low alk problem about a year or so back. Maybe you got an old bucket from that batch. Since that event, I've quit using Kent salt.

[Chowder]

If I remmember correctly my bad bucket of salt (low dkh) from last Christmas was cloudy as well. Ended up using it as a ice melter. I too have since stopped using kent salt and products.

[Salmon King]

I run into the same problem with Instant ocean.I put it in my tank and ended up doing another water change because the tank went cloudy.When it happens now I just dump it.

[christyf5]

Its just occurred to me that all of my inverts (snails, urchin and abalone) are pretty much in the same position as they were last weekend. they haven't moved an inch.

How does one know when they've kicked off? The urchin is still swirling his little tentacle-y bits so he's ok. Sometimes he isn't much on movement. However usually the snails are motoring around.

The tank does clear eventually, I thought maybe I could get away with just using a cup to two cups of IO (not standard measuring cups) but it still went cloudy. Guess I'll be using that Kent to kill weeds in the driveway

[Jason McK]

I stopped using Kent because of the amount of crap left in the mixing bucket. I talked to a friend who used a maxijet with the filter to mix his salt and needed to replace the filter it got so clogged. It's just too dirty to use.
I mix salt over several days so by the time I am adding it to the tank it would be clear but still my bucket required scrubbing each time

Aside for the dirt all levels were fine

[Delphinus]

I always could tell when an urchin had kicked off by the spineless empty shell of it that I would find.

When I moved my abalone from one tank to another, it would sit in one spot for well past a week. I thought it was a goner but eventually sprang back to life.

Couple months back I bought another abalone, a really wee little 1.5" thing and it did the same thing, sat in a spot for weeks. Thinking that this was normal I didn't think much of it ... until I found it half eaten by the CBB. So ... I guess somehow the tankmates know a little better when something's checked out than I do. I guess what I'm getting at, if it doesn't look like the other critters are eating pieces of them then they might not yet be dead. Hopefully they come around.

[Chad]

My tank went to the crapper last time I used Kent (this was the new buckets with the batch numbers) . Once I switched to Tropic Marine Pro and since then the tank has been outstanding