Well most know every once in a while I test 0.25 and change water and at times it made very little difference. Then tomes it tested ok. Well I changed My RO/DI filters , checked water comming out of RO/DI discharge and no anonia . Checked tap wter none . checked water that I had stored for a few days maybe 5 with power head in rubbermaid bucket and none. Checked water in 5 gal bucket i had just added salt to and let mix for a day and it tested 0.25 amonia. Called DR. Foster & Smith and told the teck in Liveaquaria all this and she said did i have any moisture in my busket of reef crystals salt. i said yes it's not as dry as it usually is. She said that salt that gets moisture in it picks up choraline algie microscopic and this will cause amonia in newly mixed water stord a few days. What you all think. How to keep humidity out of salt bucket just opening cover lets humid air into container . So this is where I'm at.
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Aquarist007
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ask this question in the reef chemistry forum and the salt expert--Billybeau--might answer that
Personally I never heard of that before but anything is possible
Personally I never heard of that before but anything is possible
Well the amonia tests positive when I add the salt . I've tested every possible way and like I said it's 0.25 after salt is added and disolved. I had two big solid chunks half way down in new bucket of salt . took them out mixed remaining salt in bucket real good to dilute moist with dry salt and made 5 gallond tested 0 So I don't know. I'm going to use it and test every batch i make before I use it.
