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10/01/2021, 12:05 PM | #1 |
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my LFS told me 1.029 salinity was way too high, but I read in multiple places sea salinity in reefs is between 1.028-1.029...I keep my salinity at 1.025 but I wanted the communities thoughts on what my LFS told me. I asked them their salinity because I am going to buy a clown from them and wanted to make sure acclimation went smoothly and to be honest, they were pretty rude about my suggestion of water @ 1.029 so I'm not entirely sure I want to give them my business.
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10/01/2021, 04:48 PM | #2 |
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Even The Red Sea is not that high.
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COrals can tolerate fairly high salinities, certainly higher than 1.029. But that doesn't mean we should expose corals to higher salinities. FWIW research presented in the paper below suggests the "ideal" salinity is 1.0286 or 38 PSU. Keep in mindthere are likely differences depending on both coral and simbiont species. I'd suggest using google scholar to research more.
https://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/181/m181p309.pdf
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I can't really speak to the Seneye versus Pinpoint question, but will just offer some free advise for what it's worth.
Don't get too hung up on the *actual* pH value. If you're using a commercial salt mix, mixed to around 1.025ish, and don't have some crazy huge number of fish for the tank size you have, and do weekly or biweekly water changes... your pH will be what your pH is going to be. And things will be fine. I chased pH early in my tank and it took me a while to get my parameters back in check. From then on, I realized the "ideal" numbers that are written about are "ideal" but not required. If you just finished up cycling, it's going to take a month or so for parameters to settle down to where they want to be. Watch your pH to get to know what "normal" is for your tank and you should find it's pretty consistent. If it varies from normal too much (like .2 or .3) then you might want to look around and see what's up. |
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I use API's pH test kit and haven't used Seneye or Pinpoint. For pH what I look for are long term trends and while I typically test weekly along with alkalinity if it's off from the previous week I'm not going to worry about it, there's too many things including weather that can influence weather day to day or week to week. I'm sure you've seen this elsewhere but the four tests every newbie should run weekly to get a better understanding of how their system works are pH, alkalinity, calcium and magnesium, of these I consider alkalinity the most important.
Since you're new these videos you might find informative: "Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R2BMEfQGjU Changing Seas - Mysterious Microbes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7hsp0dENEA Nitrogen cycling in hte coral holobiont https://youtu.be/DWItFGRQJL4 BActeria and Sponges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oLDclO7UcM Maintenance of Coral Reef Health (refferences at the end) https://youtu.be/dGIPveFJ_0Q Optical Feedback Loop in Colorful Coral Bleaching https://youtu.be/oadKezUYkJE Richard Ross What's up with phosphate" https://youtu.be/ZRIKW-9d2xI
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