Jordangil Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Well I woke up this morning to the sound of my return pump on my biocube spitting bubbles due to low water . I turned everything off and checked my salinity it was like 1.028 ish . I am guessing it is because I left my ceiling fan on last night and the heat in the room . My question is since it wasn't something rapid like a bad job mixing salt that it shocked the coral how should I go about lowering the salt with fresh ro/di water ? Just put enough water so the pump doesn't sputter and then add a little water every 30 minutes ? I am hoping it won't have any ill effects on the coral because it was a gradual change . Link to comment
TeflonTomDosh Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Well I woke up this morning to the sound of my return pump on my biocube spitting bubbles due to low water . I turned everything off and checked my salinity it was like 1.028 ish . I am guessing it is because I left my ceiling fan on last night and the heat in the room . My question is since it wasn't something rapid like a bad job mixing salt that it shocked the coral how should I go about lowering the salt with fresh ro/di water ? Just put enough water so the pump doesn't sputter and then add a little water every 30 minutes ? I am hoping it won't have any ill effects on the coral because it was a gradual change . Just add like a couple cups, then test the salinity. Repeat process until it's where you want it to be. Link to comment
dling Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Just add like a couple cups, then test the salinity. Repeat process until it's where you want it to be. +1 you should be fine. Link to comment
Amphiprion1 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Well I woke up this morning to the sound of my return pump on my biocube spitting bubbles due to low water . I turned everything off and checked my salinity it was like 1.028 ish . I am guessing it is because I left my ceiling fan on last night and the heat in the room . My question is since it wasn't something rapid like a bad job mixing salt that it shocked the coral how should I go about lowering the salt with fresh ro/di water ? Just put enough water so the pump doesn't sputter and then add a little water every 30 minutes ? I am hoping it won't have any ill effects on the coral because it was a gradual change . What size is the tank? If there is enough surface area and the volume is sufficiently small, then it is possible. If you keep your system at about 1.026 or so, I don't see a need to be as careful as you suggest. You can proceed that way, of course, but I don't think it's entirely necessary. If you have organisms that you have observed having negative effects to a slight change in salinity, then obviously you'd want to be careful about it. Edit: nm, plenty of others posted the same. I take way too long sometimes. Link to comment
21093r53 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 1.028 isnt that bad just correct it and move on Link to comment
Jordangil Posted July 24, 2012 Author Share Posted July 24, 2012 I read that it causes coral to melt away. Is that long term or in general? My candy canes don't look the best you , my salinity is around 1.026 right now Link to comment
Atela Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I read that it causes coral to melt away. Is that long term or in general? My candy canes don't look the best you , my salinity is around 1.026 right now I've been having the same problem. I added fresh ro/di water to compensate for the evaporation. Did not gradually add. If this has anything to do with coral melting away, I'm thinking that I had better do it 'gradually', because I've seen a number of my corals melting away. Yikes! Link to comment
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