Bringing up Salinity? Salt water top up?

[gone fishin]

That doesn't make sense to me (To top of with Salt Water).

When water evaporates from a tank, it raises salinity, since water get more concentrated. (Less any salt creep) That is why you always top off with RO water (0.000 Salinity).

If you top of with Salt water, salinity will raise constantly. In my case, I roughly top off 5 Gals a week. That would raise salinity too much, if I kept top off salt water always.

I do sometimes top off with Salt water when my skimmer is very wet skimming, but that is replacement water, not evaporated water.

That top off calculator that VHAUNG168 provided proves that fact that topping off with salt water will raise your salinity. (Exactly the calculator I was looking for). Helps with guessing. (THANKS!!)

I should have been more clear. I top off with saltwater if I am trying to bring up my salinity.

 

[BigCountry74]

top off with saltwater

 

[Mock]

I just over mix a gallon of RO water with salt, pour it right into the sump. I will do this daily until I reach the desired level. @350 gallons, one over mixed gallon is diluted quickly before anything gets a big dose of just high saltwater.

 

[Rustyprop]

I just add salt water to my tank on top off instead of fresh water.

I have a problem keeping my salinity down.

 

[Shawn O]

While not necessarily applicable to a display, my LFS sells fish with SG at about 1.018-1.019, so when I QT them I have the level in the tank at that already and then since I top off manually, I just wait a few days and let the level in the QT get lower, thereby raising the salinity to 1.026 eventually. This works especially well for TTM, usually the SG goes up about .001 per day so it works very nicely and saves me from a super long drip acclimation.

This makes no sense. If you're waiting for your salinity to rise due to evaporation (@.001/day) it would take about a week to reach the desired salinity. TTM requires placing fish in new water every three days. Are you using more than three QTs, thereby allowing each to sit longer than the life cycle of Ich?

 

[hotelbravo]

Im always having to do the opposite my lfs sells saltwater at 1.025-1.026 and I find myself filling up 5 gallon buckets with 2/3rds saltwater and the rest with freshwater. I dont think ive ever had to raise salinity..

 

[Wally.B]

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[Wally.B]

The Top up for Salinity Calculator Worked like a charm.

http://www.hamzasreef.com/Contents/C...aterTopOff.php

My 5 GAL TOP UP Bucket is now empty after a week. Salinity raised from 1.022 to 1.025 (Dead ON)!!

 

[laugh]

i don't like putting salt water in my topoff reservoir.

 

[danielb333]

I know this post is a little old but awesome! Thank you very much exactly what I was looking for!

 

[Wally.B]

All info old or new is good info if it helps.
Glad you found something useful.
I still use that calculator.

 

[WHoffmann]

My clowns didn't host any of my anemones, now I've lost all my clown fish and anemones, but my shrimp, crabs, goby and blenny, cc star fish and stuff are doing fine...... I'm confused...
Salinty 1.024

 

[heathlindner25]

My clowns didn't host any of my anemones, now I've lost all my clown fish and anemones, but my shrimp, crabs, goby and blenny, cc star fish and stuff are doing fine...... I'm confused...
Salinty 1.024

Me too:wavehand:

 

[ericarenee]

My clowns didn't host any of my anemones, now I've lost all my clown fish and anemones, but my shrimp, crabs, goby and blenny, cc star fish and stuff are doing fine...... I'm confused...
Salinty 1.024

Clown fish do not host anemones its the other way around..

sometimes things just happen that we cant explain.. there is always a reason but might be apparent to us at the time... :wavehand:

 

[Wally.B]

My clowns didn't host any of my anemones, now I've lost all my clown fish and anemones, but my shrimp, crabs, goby and blenny, cc star fish and stuff are doing fine...... I'm confused...
Salinty 1.024

Just Curious. Why the Salinity Question?

But on the topic of Clown fish and hosts.
I used to have clown fish, and also didn't have luck when I had an Anemone.
But I had a couple of leathers. A toadstool and finger.

They loved the similar fuzzy tips of the leathers and made their home.
They would go from One to another. Sometime even swim around in my Frogspawn.
I preffered Leathers over Annemoes since Anemones can move around and cause you tank troubles, like what happened to my friend. It went into overflow, stop the flow, and flooded his tank.