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i'm using coral sea salt and previously i didn't have this problem. i would mix the salt and leave it overnight and next day adjust the salt mix to make sure that the salinity is okay and then just top it up into my tank

now that my first packet of coral sea salt is finishing... there seem to be alot of whitish specks in my pail of salt mix which was left overnight... did the salt go bad? i didn't fully seal it properly and i think moisture got in and some of them clumped up together a little...

is the salt mix still usable if i run it through filter wool into my sump w/ protein skimmer?

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i'm using coral sea salt and previously i didn't have this problem. i would mix the salt and leave it overnight and next day adjust the salt mix to make sure that the salinity is okay and then just top it up into my tank

now that my first packet of coral sea salt is finishing... there seem to be alot of whitish specks in my pail of salt mix which was left overnight... did the salt go bad? i didn't fully seal it properly and i think moisture got in and some of them clumped up together a little...

is the salt mix still usable if i run it through filter wool into my sump w/ protein skimmer?

its most likely calcium prepicipate. i experience that and finding it harder to dissolve as well if i didn't seal the salt properly.

for those clumps, suspense in the water, then crush it to powder form again, that will make it easier to dissolve.

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its most likely calcium prepicipate. i experience that and finding it harder to dissolve as well if i didn't seal the salt properly.

for those clumps, suspense in the water, then crush it to powder form again, that will make it easier to dissolve.

happy reefing!

thats what i thought too... so its still okay to top it up into the water with the calcium precipitate?

:DECOMMED 5ft shallow tank:
:DECOMMED 3ft tank:
:DECOMMED 2ft nano tank:

:4ft Balcony Tank:

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