My friend told me i lost a couple fish in the QT which sucks but understandable. I walk in and see my display… (Well kinda a new fuge now looks like) Fish were pretty much screaming silently… My salinity alone is 1.30…
All I had is a batch of salt-water made up… At 1.24 salinity. I added it to bring down the salinity a tad now im gonna water change with fresh till it evens out at 1.24.
Casualties:
RBTAs - MIA
Pink Monti - Wounded
Purple Monti - In Recovery
Gonipora - In Recovery
Sebae - In Recovery
Frogspawns - In Recovery
O while I was gone my fish recovered from ick! Yay…
How did the salinity get to 1.30 ? thats like 10 times normal or more. or did you mean 1.030? that would not be that much of a problem. some seas and bay get that all the time. die offs must be from something else. Water chemistry? ammonia? nitrites? something./… what did you drop into the water by accident?
Sorry to hear things don’t look good.
I second Ken’s question. How did the salinity get that way? What do you normally keep it at?
If that was the only cause(do a full batch of water tests to confirm) then perhaps you should consider allowing your salinity to fluctuate a little more. Some people are proud when they say their salinity is always 1.0blah blah blah dead on all the time until an event like this. Every one of the 100+ species of corals I keep have been at 1.030 or higher at some point or another will out showing ill effects.(accept maybe slow growth during that time)
1.030 salinty can kill things lost my bubble tip anemone due 2 it and lost a wrasse due 2 a high salinity it creeped up on my and my hydrometer was reading it right… good thing i got a refractometer now
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1.030 salinty can kill things lost my bubble tip anemone due 2 it and lost a wrasse due 2 a high salinity it creeped up on my and my hydrometer was reading it right… good thing i got a refractometer now[/quote]
Jon’s point is that if you always keep everything dead on with no fluctuations then when something does happen it has a propensity to kill animals. If you regularly let your salinity and temp swing a little out of “ideal” range then when something goes wrong your animals are more resilient as they have experienced the swings and are used to them.
Sorry I meant 1.030 and I’ve been in WA state the last week and a half. The reason it got so high is there was no fresh water added into the sump while i was gone. I got the tank back to 1.024 and I do let it fluctuate a little just not that crazy high.
