So… sorry for another newbie question but I just noticed (after recalibrating my refractometer and buying a Hannah salinity pen) that my salinity is much lower than I thought it was (I thought it was 34-35, and it’s actually around 30 ppt).
so my plan is to correct this with a series of water changes with 40 ppt saline over a few weeks but I’m trying to decide if this happened while I was setting up my ATO and kept playing with it to make sure it worked (it sure didn’t seem like I was adding _THAT_ much water) or if maybe I had made a mistake from the beginning or if now that I have fish and I’m using some tank water here and there for testing and food, if that’s adding up? It can’t be more than 2-4oz a day.
FWIW the tank is a 6 week old Red Sea max E260 (69gallon) AIO. Protein skimmer is running pretty dry, and the system is stocked really lightly (2 clownfish, a cleaner shrimp, 8 variety snails, 1fighting conch and a little gsp and Xenia)
so my plan is to correct this with a series of water changes with 40 ppt saline over a few weeks but I’m trying to decide if this happened while I was setting up my ATO and kept playing with it to make sure it worked (it sure didn’t seem like I was adding _THAT_ much water) or if maybe I had made a mistake from the beginning or if now that I have fish and I’m using some tank water here and there for testing and food, if that’s adding up? It can’t be more than 2-4oz a day.
FWIW the tank is a 6 week old Red Sea max E260 (69gallon) AIO. Protein skimmer is running pretty dry, and the system is stocked really lightly (2 clownfish, a cleaner shrimp, 8 variety snails, 1fighting conch and a little gsp and Xenia)