dburr
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This is my first time doing hyposalinity. This is what I've done so far and maybe someone can tell me how i'm doing.
I used water from my main tank and put it in a 55 gallon.
salanity was at 1.025, KH at 80 ppm and Ph is 8.3. Temp. is at 79 degs. (I know KH is low, that's a battle in my tank)
I am using my whisper 3 filter and my prizm skimmer for filtration.
Last night I set it all up and threw in the fish. I add 1/2 gallon of water to start the prizm.
I made up some DI water with Kent superbuffer dKH (1/2 tsp per 3 gallons) The PH of the DI water was 8.6+ and the KH was 100 ppm.
This morning I changed out 1-1/2 gallons of water which brought my salanity to 1.0235.
This afternoon I did 1-1/2 gallons again and my salanity is 1.0225.
Tonight I will do 3 gallons and it should bring it to 1.0205 in theory.
I think I need to change more water or do it more often to bring me down to 1.009 faster right?
So far fish are doing great. Any comments, should I be doing anything else or different?
DBurr
This is my first time doing hyposalinity. This is what I've done so far and maybe someone can tell me how i'm doing.
I used water from my main tank and put it in a 55 gallon.
salanity was at 1.025, KH at 80 ppm and Ph is 8.3. Temp. is at 79 degs. (I know KH is low, that's a battle in my tank)
I am using my whisper 3 filter and my prizm skimmer for filtration.
Last night I set it all up and threw in the fish. I add 1/2 gallon of water to start the prizm.
I made up some DI water with Kent superbuffer dKH (1/2 tsp per 3 gallons) The PH of the DI water was 8.6+ and the KH was 100 ppm.
This morning I changed out 1-1/2 gallons of water which brought my salanity to 1.0235.
This afternoon I did 1-1/2 gallons again and my salanity is 1.0225.
Tonight I will do 3 gallons and it should bring it to 1.0205 in theory.
I think I need to change more water or do it more often to bring me down to 1.009 faster right?
So far fish are doing great. Any comments, should I be doing anything else or different?
DBurr