What would cause my salinity to creep downward...I only replace the evap with freshwater. I am going to add some extra salty water to raise it back up and am curious as to where the salt is going.
Hey Friends! So after doing some speedy reading I’m pretty sure i got everything right, i just treated the tank, I’m now waiting! The very first thing I did was make 15gal of saltwater so I’m ready to go in case of emergency. It was hard to figure out how much interceptor i needed to use, it seems most of the information out there is for large tanks; this is where chemistry class helped! I used known values (1large tab treats 380gal and contains 23mg of milbemycin oxime) ...
Updated 12-05-2011 at 11:27 PM by baker.shawn
wow im definitely in a "low" this week with the hobby, not much has been going right first off, Thursday while fragging some acro i noticed i had redbugs i was not very happy, a couple pieces really are not doing so well working 9 hour days i havent been able to treat the tank, tomorrow i plan on attacking On Friday i went out and bought a cheap UPS battery backup from tigerdirect. it cost $50 or so. It took me about 2 hours to mount under the stand and fixing ...
Still fighting some alge and nitrates but the tanks coming along
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12...carbon_levels/