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Just curious what end of the spectrum you all like your salinity at?

Any pros or cons to keeping it at 1.026 apposed to keeping 1.021 or vise versa?
 

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From what ive read its best to keep the salinity similar to the ocean, average is about 1.025 in nature
 

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Which ocean? Salinity varies from ocean to ocean

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I agree. If you have fish also, and most do... 1.026 is a little to high for many of them.

125g mixed reef Peninsula
salinity: 1.025, CA: 500, ALK: 9.0DKH, NO3: 0, PO4: 0.25, MAG: 1355
AI SOL BLUES/ 24" T5 Combo
30g Sump, 1400gph Return Flow, 3700 gph PH Flow
 

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I shoot for 1.025 as well

For a fish only I have heard that they tend to do better at fighting off disease with a lower (1.022ish) SG
 
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