Water change-Salinity 1.022-out of salt! advice pls!

tosteetos · 07/20/2010, 09:08 PM

Guys, I just decided to do a water change and it's 11PM here, the saltwater I prepared was supposedly at the ssame salinity of my DT's water, however I realized I was still 2 gallons short of water and measured my salinity to see if it could support 2 gallons of make up water and it measured at 1.022 and I have no salt!

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my concern is I had it at 1.025 to begin with, since I introduced my first 4 frags during the weekend I started to top off with salt water to get there.

The frags seem to be in enough stress already from the 2 hour trip from lfs to house and now this.

local pet stores closed, 1.022 SG, 2 gallons of water to top off and no salt! overflow isn't working since there isn't enough water I have 2 koralias working in the tank to keep everything moving, yeah a big newbie's mistake, it sure won't happen again.

Tank is a 90g 2 months and only have the cuc and these new frags, Should I prepare myself to lose the little new additions?

Desperately need your input please!

thank you.

danno23 · 07/20/2010, 09:21 PM

The frags will be fine, just slow add salt to your top off water to bring it back up to 1.025. The LFS tank was probably only 1.023 so not much of a stress at all.

tosteetos · 07/20/2010, 09:28 PM

my pump isn't running though, My sump is basically out right now since I don't have enough water to overflow to the sump. I'm wondering if I should still add that 1g of regular RO water.

07/20/2010, 09:08 PM	#1
tosteetos Registered Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 52	Water change-Salinity 1.022-out of salt! advice pls! Guys, I just decided to do a water change and it's 11PM here, the saltwater I prepared was supposedly at the ssame salinity of my DT's water, however I realized I was still 2 gallons short of water and measured my salinity to see if it could support 2 gallons of make up water and it measured at 1.022 and I have no salt! . my concern is I had it at 1.025 to begin with, since I introduced my first 4 frags during the weekend I started to top off with salt water to get there. The frags seem to be in enough stress already from the 2 hour trip from lfs to house and now this. local pet stores closed, 1.022 SG, 2 gallons of water to top off and no salt! overflow isn't working since there isn't enough water I have 2 koralias working in the tank to keep everything moving, yeah a big newbie's mistake, it sure won't happen again. Tank is a 90g 2 months and only have the cuc and these new frags, Should I prepare myself to lose the little new additions? Desperately need your input please! thank you.

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07/20/2010, 09:21 PM	#2
danno23 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 53	The frags will be fine, just slow add salt to your top off water to bring it back up to 1.025. The LFS tank was probably only 1.023 so not much of a stress at all.

07/20/2010, 09:28 PM	#3
tosteetos Registered Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 52	my pump isn't running though, My sump is basically out right now since I don't have enough water to overflow to the sump. I'm wondering if I should still add that 1g of regular RO water.