Noobie mistake - my tank thrived at 1.029sg

[Gabbone]

Hi, just a quick consideration;

Due to a salimeter factory issue, the reading I’ve got for 3 months was always way lower that reality. Finally yesterday I used a calibrated refractometer and my salinity was shockingly at 1.029-1.030sg.

My system thrived for 3 months without any issue. This resulted in having CA at 550ppm and MG at 1700ppm. Dkh at 11 cause I am using redsea pro salt.

Now I am slowly bringing the salinity at 1.025-1.026sg.

At least I don’t have to dose anything for my coral ahahah

 

[WalkerLoves_TheOcean]

Gorgeous tank and that's very interesting that it was able to survive off of that high salinity for that long.

 

[JNalley]

Gorgeous tank and that's very interesting that it was able to survive off of that high salinity.

Not really. The Red Sea (the actual body of water, not the salt/aquarium company) has a specific gravity range of 1.028 - 1.035. The ocean is not Homogenous; SG and PPT range pretty drastically throughout different regions. We use 1.026, which is closer to a Caribbean SG, but most of our fish come from the Indo-Pacific, which is lower at 1.022 - 1.025. If you look at reefs that are near the mouths of rivers, especially rivers that start pretty far inland and have snow melt runoff etc at certain times of year, the variances get even wider, and changes can happen on a dime depending on the volume of water the river is dumping into the ocean.

 

[steveschuerger]

I wouldn’t worry too much, at least with the salinity levels go. I had my tank at 1.032 a couple times and was just fine.

 

[Cell]

Obviously there are certain thresholds but generally, stability> specific parameters

 

[WalkerLoves_TheOcean]

Gorgeous tank and that's very interesting that it was able to survive off of that high salinity for that long.

The only reason that I am saying this, is because when I can back from a vacation, my salinity was about that high, and things did not look like they were they were thriving, but a few hours after I got the salinity back to normal, things opened back up and looked good again.

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Hi, just a quick consideration;

Due to a salimeter factory issue, the reading I’ve got for 3 months was always way lower that reality. Finally yesterday I used a calibrated refractometer and my salinity was shockingly at 1.029-1.030sg.

My system thrived for 3 months without any issue. This resulted in having CA at 550ppm and MG at 1700ppm. Dkh at 11 cause I am using redsea pro salt.

Now I am slowly bringing the salinity at 1.025-1.026sg.

At least I don’t have to dose anything for my coral ahahah

Thanks for reminding me to calibrate my refractometer!

 

[Gabbone]

Thanks for reminding me to calibrate my refractometer

haha! make sure to use solution at 35ppm rather then rodi