Why do hobbyist have such low salinity levels

[hogfanreefer]

Originally Posted by Scott07

I wish I could pay more... i mean, i would pay 20 dollars more even, to have fish shipped in 1.025. Ive done 3 rounds of ttm recently for new arrivals, and I think the most frustrating part for me has been slowly raising salinity with each transfer. I must have spent 3 hours the other day chasing 1.023. 1.025 I can hit with very little effort, as thats my DT salinity and I know how much salt to measure. 1.021 or 1.023 or so.... man.... sometimes I go crosseyed from looking through the refractometer so much lol.

Use your 1.025 water. Take a little out and replace with RO/DI and repeat till you get the desired salinity. Make note of how much you needed to change out. Get's pretty intuitive the more you do it.

[VGT]

1.026. Also, the digital refract is easily the best $100 I ever spent.

[liverock]

Originally Posted by d2mini

I never test anyone else's salinity.
I acclimate to my tank water and that's it.

This is the way to do it....chasing numbers while you animals are in a bag is not what you want to do...here in the Gulf salinity goes from


.17 to .45....so the critters are used to most anything...

More important is getting them out of the bag and into your tank.....the ONLY thing I would be concerned about when introducing shipped animals...is temperature ...if there is a drastic variance...just float the bags in you tank for an hour....then introduce....

Richard TBS
www.tbsaltwater.com

[hogfanreefer]

Originally Posted by liverock

This is the way to do it....chasing numbers while you animals are in a bag is not what you want to do...here in the Gulf salinity goes from


.17 to .45....so the critters are used to most anything...

More important is getting them out of the bag and into your tank.....the ONLY thing I would be concerned about when introducing shipped animals...is temperature ...if there is a drastic variance...just float the bags in you tank for an hour....then introduce....

Richard TBS
www.tbsaltwater.com

Just to be clear, that's not what most of us are referring to. We are setting the salinity of the QT to the salinity of the shipping water before the fish arrives. That facilitates rapid removal from an ammonia filled bag to a salinity close or exactly to what he's already acclimated to. Not at all hard to do.

I agree about them being a little more tolerant than we think and I'm OK if the water is within 0.002.