landlord
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Hello folks, thanks in advance for looking.
Here is my situation. I tend to skim on the wet side of the fence for no better reason than, pulling out a nice volume of green tea colored skimmate each day, sometimes twice a day.
This in turn forces the A.T.O. to replace this lost salt water volume woth RO/DI.
The water volume is 90 gallon + water in sump / skimmer / fuge/ CA Reactor..... lets say another 25 gallons tops = 115 gallons in the system.
I water change religiously 15 gallons per week.
I notice that I have been seeing a decrease in salinity (as expected) from the wet skimming to the tune of as much as .002 - .003 in SG (.003 this week only since I cleaned the skimmer and it began really skimming wet. It has been dialed back a bit to compensate). During the water change this forces me to load the new water up with a higher SG to get the tank back to 1.026 at the end of the change out.
I am not observing anything outright bad with my SPS. They are all adding to their skeletons and doing their thing. Those with good color are retaining their color (Tricolor, Birdsnest, various Monti's, etc). Those on the browner side of the color fence are remaining on the brown side, which bugs me, I want colors like everyone else lurking this forum.
Is this gradual salinity swing over the course of each week doing damage that I am not aware of, aside from what I mentioned above? Should I be concerned with this wet skimming regimen? I cannot be the only one who deals with this change in salinity in smaller volumed tanks.
Thoughts, Questions, Comments, General Harassing.
Thanks again for reading,
--landlord
Here is my situation. I tend to skim on the wet side of the fence for no better reason than, pulling out a nice volume of green tea colored skimmate each day, sometimes twice a day.
This in turn forces the A.T.O. to replace this lost salt water volume woth RO/DI.
The water volume is 90 gallon + water in sump / skimmer / fuge/ CA Reactor..... lets say another 25 gallons tops = 115 gallons in the system.
I water change religiously 15 gallons per week.
I notice that I have been seeing a decrease in salinity (as expected) from the wet skimming to the tune of as much as .002 - .003 in SG (.003 this week only since I cleaned the skimmer and it began really skimming wet. It has been dialed back a bit to compensate). During the water change this forces me to load the new water up with a higher SG to get the tank back to 1.026 at the end of the change out.
I am not observing anything outright bad with my SPS. They are all adding to their skeletons and doing their thing. Those with good color are retaining their color (Tricolor, Birdsnest, various Monti's, etc). Those on the browner side of the color fence are remaining on the brown side, which bugs me, I want colors like everyone else lurking this forum.
Is this gradual salinity swing over the course of each week doing damage that I am not aware of, aside from what I mentioned above? Should I be concerned with this wet skimming regimen? I cannot be the only one who deals with this change in salinity in smaller volumed tanks.
Thoughts, Questions, Comments, General Harassing.
Thanks again for reading,
--landlord