nfored
03/26/2012, 06:22 PM
Okay I know some will flame me but please at least advise me.
My 55G FOWLR only has an snow flake EEL as such it is essentially 99% covered and has no noticeable evaporation. As such I don't have to top off I simply do a 5 gallon water change once every week some times once every other week.
Here comes the flame part, I don't check my salinity every week I thought since I have basically no evaporation the salinity was about the same. Well today I checked it and it was half way betwwen 1.026 and 1.028, So I checked my water can where I keep my salt water; it was 1.028 even. When I made this 32Gallon trash can full of salt water it was 1.025 Now I know that it evaporates a lot but I was dumb and didn't stop to think about this.
So what I have done so far was do a 5 gallon water change like normal, but this time I used 2.5 gallons of fresh water and 2.5 gallons of the 1.028 salt water. I was hoping this would drop the salinity in the tank by maybe 0.001 or 0.002. I then added 5 gallons of fresh water to my salt water can, I will check its salinity level in the morning and adjust accordingly until its back to 1.025.
My question is should I be watching for anything? did I jack up my poor eel? should I keep doing the 50/50 fresh water and salt water mix until I can get the tank back to 1.025? or should I just keep doing water changes with 100% salt water thats 1.025.
I already feel horrible and stupid so please keep the :deadhorse: to a min.
Thank you.
My 55G FOWLR only has an snow flake EEL as such it is essentially 99% covered and has no noticeable evaporation. As such I don't have to top off I simply do a 5 gallon water change once every week some times once every other week.
Here comes the flame part, I don't check my salinity every week I thought since I have basically no evaporation the salinity was about the same. Well today I checked it and it was half way betwwen 1.026 and 1.028, So I checked my water can where I keep my salt water; it was 1.028 even. When I made this 32Gallon trash can full of salt water it was 1.025 Now I know that it evaporates a lot but I was dumb and didn't stop to think about this.
So what I have done so far was do a 5 gallon water change like normal, but this time I used 2.5 gallons of fresh water and 2.5 gallons of the 1.028 salt water. I was hoping this would drop the salinity in the tank by maybe 0.001 or 0.002. I then added 5 gallons of fresh water to my salt water can, I will check its salinity level in the morning and adjust accordingly until its back to 1.025.
My question is should I be watching for anything? did I jack up my poor eel? should I keep doing the 50/50 fresh water and salt water mix until I can get the tank back to 1.025? or should I just keep doing water changes with 100% salt water thats 1.025.
I already feel horrible and stupid so please keep the :deadhorse: to a min.
Thank you.