Cloudy water

[m and m]

If i have been mixing salt water in a bucket with high salanity for a day. To add this to my tank to raise the salanity of my system can it cause my tank to get cloudy? Over the past 12 hours i have been addig about a 1/5 of a gallon every hour or so, now i feel lik my tank is a pale color but still has a lower salanity not what i want it at. will this settle down or should i do a water change?

 

[blackhawk86]

Anytime you raise or lower salt you wanna do it slow if there are fish and other live things in the tank. The water you added to the tank will clear up in about 3 or 4 hours depending on how much salt you had in it. Let us know if there is life in the tank what your salt level is right now in the tank along with size, where you would like the level to be, and what the salt level was in the bucket. you should always let salt mixtures mature over 24 hours with a heater and power head to put Oxy. in the mix and let the salt mix fully clear. This will help keep many para. stable.

 

[m and m]

I did let the salt mix for 24hr in a 5g bucket about 3g full. then in the pat 2hrs i slowly added it, i have sps,lps and zoos. It was at 1.020 and i ready that was super low, but everything in my tank was thriving and growing very well. Now i was trying to raise it to 1.026 and in the past 10 hours i have raisd it to 1.024 i think it is at now..

 

[m and m]

ps forgot to menshion i did not add all the bucket yet even still its still about half way full of the rich white salty water i made to raise it.

 

[zona322]

i would not add any more salt to the tank let it sit over night and slowly and over the next few days to bring it up to .026 .001 a day i would not bring it up any faster if you have sps lps and any other stuff that is harder to keep. bringing it up from .020 to .024 in one day is a little scary to me. but just my 2 cents
craig

 

[blackhawk86]

Id say leave it like it as for right now and keep checking the salt because all the cloudyness is undisolved salt that will keep raising the salt level as it clears and disolves. I keep my salt level at 1.025 and wouldnt really let it get any higher than that. If it gets to high in the tank to fast do a 30-40% water change with correctly mixed water and see where its at in the tank after 30 to 40 mins of the water change. You can also lower the salt level by slowly replacing the tanks water with ro/di water or what ever you use for make up water in 1/2 gallon to 1 gallon incriments depending on the size of the tank. Things to remember though are slow changes in any parameter are better than fast ones (over the period of 1 to 7 days), as salt water eveporates the salt stays in the water raising the salt level you will need to add fresh water instead of saltwater to counter act this process via a ATO system or manually adding fresh water daily. Just be careful while changing salt levels really, changing it to fast or to low/high will hurt coral and send fish into osmotic shock and could possibly kill them.