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Originally posted by Billybeau1
Mike, I'm afraid I disagree.
You say "all the people that posted in this thread" Just how many is that ?
And how many is that compared to the thousands of people on Reef Central that are using Reef Crystals and not having problems ?
I spend a lot of my time and money trying to help fellow reefers figure out chemical issues with products and testing supplies. I do this because I enjoy helping out and for as much water testing I have done over the years, I'd like to think the numbers I post are pretty close to real.
Threads like this come along all the time and in many cases, the issue is with testing of some sort and not the actual product itself.
In the 8 years I've been here, I can only remember one salt manufacturing issue and that was the low alk Seachem fiasco awhile back.
I hope you didn't take Boomers recent comments about me seriously. I have no affiliation with Marineland and I do not own stock in Reef Crystals. He was joking with me, as he does from time to time. We are friends.
I simply want to see this for myself since a number of people are seeing problems and it all seems to be coming from the same place, I'm hoping to shed some light on the situation. I am not satisfied with the response one of our members got from Drs Foster & Smith.
Whether you choose to believe my findings or not is up to you. I'm quite sure a number of our members are interested in what I come up with.
Personally, I did not care for your comment or bdare's for that matter. You seem to have been jumping on a number of my posts as of late.
Just because a few people reported a calcium problem with a salt mix doesn't necessarily mean that salt mix has consistency issues. It very well could be a bad batch problem, or a moisture problem, or a mixing problem or a testing problem. I prefer to find the real cause of the problem before we all go and point fingers and accuse manufacturers of a bad product. This has happened too many times in the past in our hobby.
Are you doing anything to help figure out this problem ? If not, I suggest you post in a thread where you can be of some help. 
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I think the problem here is you are attempting to tell those of us with low number either we are crazy or just don't know how to test water. I've been doing this for a long time. The Ca in the Reef Crystals I have is 360. PERIOD.
Just because you order a bucket from the good Drs and you test your water at 420 isn't going to prove anything. I'm sure they get new salt in all the time. Unless you test the salt from someone who is reporting the low numbers you are simply reporting the results from YOUR bucket.
I'll gladly send you 1/2 cup of salt for you to test.
The reason people are jumping all over you is because as I stated before... you are either telling us we are crazy or incapable of testing our water.