Just bought first tank extremely high salinity

[Reefdancer.300]

I'm 17, i just bought my first tank, its a 29 gallon tall, just got it home and set it back up with its original water from the person we bought it from, just tested the salinity, it is max on our hydrometer, in my dad's tank its reading 1.025.

It came with a Clownfish and a Damsel, I don't want to shock the fish by reducing the salinity too fast, what is the best way to bring it down?

 

[AZ_Reef]

1.025 is not high. I keep my tank at 1.025. Why do you think it’s high?

 

[Ippyroy]

Small water changes with lower salinity water. Welcome to R2R!

 

[ThePurple12]

He's saying his dad's tank is 1.025 and the new is max.

 

[ThePurple12]

1.025 is not high. I keep my tank at 1.025. Why do you think it’s high?

 

[Funston07]

1.025 is not high. I keep my tank at 1.025. Why do you think it’s high?

I think he is saying the water from the tank they just got is maxed out on their hydrometer so they tested his dads tank to make sure the hydrometer was reading correctly and it read 1.025 from his dads tank.

 

[ThePurple12]

There's really only one way I can think of to lower salinity- water changes. Just bring it down slowly, maybe over a few days. And welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[AZ_Reef]

He's saying his dad's tank is 1.025 and the new is max.

My bad. Small water change.

 

[Funston07]

He's saying his dad's tank is 1.025 and the new is max.

I must have been writing my long paragraph while you beat me to the short punch lol

 

[Bryn]

Welcome to R2R

 

[ThePurple12]

I must have been writing my long paragraph while you beat me to the short punch lol

Happens to me all the time:p

 

[ZiBiReef]

Take out a couple cups of water and drip in rodi water. And repeat. Maybe do this a couple times a day to acclimate the fish. Keep an eye on it tho. As soon as u turn around, it's on the floor

 

[Funston07]

Welcome to R2R by the way

 

[LegendaryCG]

Since nobody answered you yet, change a gallon a day with your desired salinity.

 

[MJ in Boise]

Remove 1/4 gal tank water and replace with rodi. Do that a few times a day until your salinity is where you want it.

 

[MightyMO]

Welcome to Reef2reef!!! Take a couple cups out of it and replace the water with fresh rodi water. Let it mix together for an hour or 2 and take another reading...

 

[Dw79]

Good advise above and Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[Reefdancer.300]

Sorry i missed the responses, I poured in 4 gallons of pure rodi to top off the tank, brought it down to 1.028 (max is 1.032 which is what it was reading before i'm going to continue doing water changes at 1.025 to bring it the rest of the way down. Thanks for the advice everyone!

 

[ZiBiReef]

Sorry i missed the responses, I poured in 4 gallons of pure rodi to top off the tank, brought it down to 1.028 (max is 1.032 which is what it was reading before i'm going to continue doing water changes at 1.025 to bring it the rest of the way down. Thanks for the advice everyone!

Technically due to dilution, if you do waterchanges at 1.025 when your salinity is above, u will never really reach 1.025.... u need to do waterchanges at a lower salinity(1.020-1.023) than desired to get to 1.025

 

[Brandon Smith]

Well you got a lot of different answers lol. When I recieve fish orders, I always acclimate them in a bucket. I add enough of their water so they can swim, and then I start adding water from my system.

Maybe you can do something like that. Put the fish in a 5 gallon bucket with enough water for them to swim. Get the water in your tank to 1.025, and then slowly add water from your tank to the bucket.