Lowering insane salinity for LPS

[Mariette]

I’ve got a few acans, a mushroom, and brown gsp if that’s a thing. Acans and mushroom were looking terrible. Turns out My brand new salt meter is malfunctioning and I just learned my salinity is through the roof. As in unreadably high!!! I bought 2 new ones and both confirm this. After 2 days of adding freshwater w prime, my SG is at 1.032. Acans and mushroom look so much better I’m shocked. How slowly do I have to go to bring salinity back to normal?

 

[Irishman]

What do you mean by fresh water with prime? Do you mean like sink water or RO/DI water?

You could go down .001=.002 a day and be fine.

 

[Mariette]

What do you mean by fresh water with prime? Do you mean like sink water or RO/DI water?

You could go down .001=.002 a day and be fine.

Tap :( I don’t make my own RO/DI water and didn’t have extra on hand. I have a bucket but I had already mixed salt into it and didn’t want to add more salt.

 

[Bayareareefer18]

Tap :( I don’t make my own RO/DI water and didn’t have extra on hand. I have a bucket but I had already mixed salt into it and didn’t want to add more salt.

Since you want to drop it slowly anyway I would consider grabbing some rodi so that you don't get your salinity issue corrected just to turn around and potentially have a nurtrient/algae issue

 

[Mastiffsrule]

I’ve got a few acans, a mushroom, and brown gsp if that’s a thing. Acans and mushroom were looking terrible. Turns out My brand new salt meter is malfunctioning and I just learned my salinity is through the roof. As in unreadably high!!! I bought 2 new ones and both confirm this. After 2 days of adding freshwater w prime, my SG is at 1.032. Acans and mushroom look so much better I’m shocked. How slowly do I have to go to bring salinity back to normal?

Hi:)

What were u using to check? Ro/di isn’t an issue so much as making sure we are getting the right numbers for salinity

 

[Mariette]

Since you want to drop it slowly anyway I would consider grabbing some rodi so that you don't get your salinity issue corrected just to turn around and potentially have a nurtrient/algae issue

Rodi pickup is scheduled for tomorrow. We pick up every Saturday for water changes. Maybe I’ll keep 1 bucket unsalted for situations like this...

 

[Mariette]

Hi:)

What were u using to check? Ro/di isn’t an issue so much as making sure we are getting the right numbers for salinity

One of these style ones.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

Was that the one that gave the high reading.

I like those and use them almost exclusively, but sometimes a small bubble will get trapped on the float arm and raise it giving a false reading. Try a few times, and I tap the bottom on the counter a few times to make sure no bubbles on the arm

Just a thought;Joyful, hi

 

[Bayareareefer18]

Rodi pickup is scheduled for tomorrow. We pick up every Saturday for water changes. Maybe I’ll keep 1 bucket unsalted for situations like this...

Always good to have some on hand. Don't keep some around for top off water ?

 

[Bayareareefer18]

Wait....light bulb. Is that why salinity is so high? Top off water ?

 

[rogersb]

Try to keep a gallon of distilled water on hand in case of emergencies.

 

[Mariette]

Was that the one that gave the high reading.

I like those and use them almost exclusively, but sometimes a small bubble will get trapped on the float arm and raise it giving a false reading. Try a few times, and I tap the bottom on the counter a few times to make sure no bubbles on the arm

Just a thought;Joyful, hi

Yes. I’d been using one for 2 yrs w out issue until I dropped it and I think the arm thing loosened. So I bought a new one which seemed to be fine for a few weeks. It was giving readings lower than it should. Bubbles would cause higher readings. I bought 2 new ones and they both work.

 

[Mariette]

Wait....light bulb. Is that why salinity is so high? Top off water ?

No. I use RO water to top off. But it’s got a glass lid over 1/2 of it that gets a good amount of salt creep along the back that I hadn’t noticed before and it then falls back into the tank maybe?

 

[Mariette]

Try to keep a gallon of distilled water on hand in case of emergencies.

I doooo but I mix salt into it. I use RO water. I keep some with no salt for top offs but I used it up in my 110g. Issue w salinity is in my 20g temporary setup. The 110g is new and I didn’t realize how much top off water I’d be using. I think I’m gonna need more buckets lol. Some RO w no salt. Some pre mixed. Some extra.

 

[Reefthedayaway]

I've put my tank into hypo over a cpl of days all fish survived. It's when you raise it you can only go up 0.02 a day as you can dehydrate the fish if you raise salinity to quick.