Details on adding salt after hyposalinity

[sarahlovesfish]

Today I am going to prepare a bucket of saltwater to the qt tank. How often should I add it everyday, and what level of salt it should be?

 

[sarahlovesfish]

I need to get it done today, so I need some answers

 

[jcw]

I've read that going from normal salinity to hyposalinity can be done quickly.

However the opposite is not true. Apparently the oxygen levels can drop going up too quickly.

Personally, when i did it, I topped off with DT water (assuming your dt is disease free) to replace evaporation. If a larger water change was needed, i tried to keep about the same salinity that the qt was at.

Also, i made sure that the newly mixed salt water mixed for at least a day or more.

 

[Andrew]

You should raise it SLOWLY over 3-5 days. Whenver I raise up mine I just do a few gallon water change of higher salinty salt to bring it up. You just have to watch it closly do you don't raise it but 0.001 at a time.