mwhite
05/14/2007, 06:39 PM
A friend of my son was moving so he gave me his corals on Saturday. He wasn't really into the hobby and used his tank as a decoration. He had a "professional" do the maintenance (and paid dearly for it).
I took buckets and carried the corals home in his tank water. When I got ready to acclimatize them to my tank I checked the salinity of his water. Would you believe it was 1.036?
He had a mixture of softies and LFS and a few tangs in a 75G with a sump. They all seemed be doing well but I never heard of corals surviving in that high a salinity. I am VERY slowly reducing the salinity to 1.026. I can't imagine the shock of adding them directly to my tank.
I took buckets and carried the corals home in his tank water. When I got ready to acclimatize them to my tank I checked the salinity of his water. Would you believe it was 1.036?
He had a mixture of softies and LFS and a few tangs in a 75G with a sump. They all seemed be doing well but I never heard of corals surviving in that high a salinity. I am VERY slowly reducing the salinity to 1.026. I can't imagine the shock of adding them directly to my tank.