How fast can one raise SG out of Hypo?

[Slakker]

I've been working my clowns out of Hyposalinity for several weeks now and the SG is at 1.020 in the QT tank. I'll be picking up a Frogspawn frag at my local reef club meeting on Sunday and would like to be able to QT the frag, but with the clowns in there I have nowhere to put it.

I was thinking I could get them to 1.022 yet today, get 1.024 by saturday night, and then sunday morning drip acclimate them to the main tanks water.

Is this a safe rate?

 

[ahullsb]

You should be fine. I've raised it by that much with a pair of clowns and a tang and they were fine.

 

[Slakker]

Awesome...thank you! I figured it would be okay but wanted to double check.

I'll be throwing up tons of pictures once I get the clowns back to the main tank (hopefully they'll like my Xenia!)

 

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i've done .003/24 hours increase on clowns w/ a drip and haven't seen any ill effects - you've probably already started, but i figured at least one more anecdote on the pile couldn't hurt.

 

[Slakker]

Another question...I've just been doing water changes with full strength salt water (1g at a time in a 10g...barely moves the SG reading on the refracto) as well as topping the tank off with full strength SW...

Is there another way, like setting up a drip of super-concentrated SW or something?

 

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i've never went above .040 w/ drip rate of 1 per 5 seconds or so, and dripping right above a powerhead, but yah...going w/ a salinity well above your target makes the process go a little quicker - i'd imagine if you're going slow enough on the drip rate, you could go even higher on the salinity of the drip-water, but that's as high as i've went, at least.