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Hammerstone

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Hammerstone

Ok, so it's my understanding that the salt in our aquarium never changes quantity and that's why we top off with fresh. I just woke up so this might not make sense. What is salt creep? We don't knock it back into our aquariums, we clean it up. Not understanding this morning?

 

This probably sounds really dumb.

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Unless you have a ridiculous amount of salt creep that little loss of salt should be negligible. You can measure the salinity of your tank every time before water change and add just a tad more salt into your change water to compensate. But you're probably talking about 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon of salt a week.

 

That said I do knock the salt back into my tank LOL. Just gotta make sure it won't land on any corals.

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Hammerstone

Yeah it's not a lot unless I let it accumulate lol. I thought it was bad to put it back into the tank for some reason lol. I've just wondered about it off and on.

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Salt creep is the hardened salt on surfaces like the tank trim, on filter, etc. Its from salt spray or water spillage/drips. Its literally the crystalization of the salt.

 

Its not advised to put it back into the tank. Wipe it off carefully.

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HarryPotter

Salt creep is the hardened salt on surfaces like the tank trim, on filter, etc. Its from salt spray or water spillage/drips. Its literally the crystalization of the salt.

 

Its not advised to put it back into the tank. Wipe it off carefully.

Why not put it back?

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jamescstein

I just toss it in my ATO container. That way to dissolves again over time and isn't dropped on anything.

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I just flush it down with my top off water. Usually they stick on to my tank pretty good that the top off water dissolves it down instead of flushing the entire piece of salt into the tank.

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