New Article on how to Prevent Marine Aquarium Disasters

Wow sen you put a lot into that article. Thank you, great job!

 

Sen did a great job! Congrats.

 

Thanks for the article!

 

thx to those who posted their disasters. I lot of what I've learned has come from this website. We see too many people telling their horror stories. I hope the article helps.

 

I looked at some discussions on this and apparently precipitation can make the salt go bad but perhaps still usable. The question, I think, is can salt go bad enough to kill livestock. If not, then perhaps bad salt doesn't qualify as a 'disaster'.

 

as far as i know from experience is that the only thing that happens is like what ccapt said is that your cal and alk levels may be very low. but you can make that up with additives.

 

It was suggested on another site that if salt has absorbed moisture it could have easily absorbed other things like exhaust fumes in a garage. This might explain why one person's livestock all died after he used a big hard chunk of salt. (At some point, I may have to make a couple revisions in the article like 'bad salt may cause a disaster'.)