Salt on top off water - easy way to raise salinity?

[Fisherman Joe]

My salinity is 1.024, I’m lazy.

My tank is 600L, according to online calculators, 1.5kg of salt will increase the salinity.

If I add 500g to my top off water (slowly and gently) will this raise the salt?

Am I missing something? Good idea or not?

 

[Katrina71]

Don't add salt to your tank.

 

[rkpetersen]

Temporarily topping off with saltwater instead of freshwater is a well-accepted way to gradually raise salinity.

 

[Fisherman Joe]

I’m talking about having salty top off water rather than fresh water.

 

[reefer_dude]

let it evaporate (don't top off with fresh). it will gradually increase salinity then fill with fresh saltwater to the normal level

 

[Fisherman Joe]

I see your point but that’s more work than just adding salt to the top off tank.

 

[reefer_dude]

.002 isn't a lot. probably just skip one day of topping off. i would wait until your ready for a water change so you will have the fresh saltwater already made

 

[Jon Fishman]

Temporarily topping off with saltwater instead of freshwater is a well-accepted way to gradually raise salinity.

This is what I do

 

[Fisherman Joe]

If you are testing with 100ml of tank water twice a day using the KH Director, how much salt are you losing in grams? Presuming 1.026 gravity.

I was thinking do I add lime 50g of salt to my top off tank each week?

 

[Jay Z]

I have a fresh water and salt water top off. When the salinity gets low I switch the connections and let the salt water fill for ato until I’m happy with the numbers and switch back.

On general I keep my salt mix at 36 to compensate for skimmer production and lose.