High salinity just "lagging"

[littlehermit0]

What the heck is happening there, I'm using reef crystals and I never had this situation where my salinity randomly stopped at 1.030 and I can't lower it, I PUT FRESHWATER HERE and it still shows me this results, I re-calibrated my refractometer hundreds of times and it still shows 1.030

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

What the heck is happening there, I'm using reef crystals and I never had this situation where my salinity randomly stopped at 1.030 and I can't lower it, I PUT FRESHWATER HERE and it still shows me this results, I re-calibrated my refractometer hundreds of times and it still shows 1.030

What do you mean by stopped?

How do you think the salinity got that high?

How big is the tank, and how much freshwater did you add in

Also, what refractometer are you using?

 

[littlehermit0]

What do you mean by stopped?

How do you think the salinity got that high?

How big is the tank, and how much freshwater did you add in

Also, what refractometer are you using?

It stalled at 1.030 and I didn't put any salt in there for a week, I use the same refractometer as Red Sea but it's another brand, the telescope thingy, I put like 0.3 L of freshwater in my 22L tank

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I would say its broke or you're using it incorrectly.

Save yourself some frustration and go buy a hanna digital salinity checker

 

[littlehermit0]

I would say its broke or you're using it incorrectly.

Save yourself some frustration and go buy a hanna digital salinity checker

It works!!! I know it works because RODI shows 0, In the QT it shows 1.025 and in another water it's also that result, just my DT being like that

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

It stalled at 1.030 and I didn't put any salt in there for a week, I use the same refractometer as Red Sea but it's another brand, the telescope thingy, I put like 0.3 L of freshwater in my 22L tank

I don't think you added enough FW.

Take out some of the water, and replace it with FW.

Very closely monitor the salinity level, and do it very slowly.

 

[littlehermit0]

I don't think you added enough FW.

Take out some of the water, and replace it with FW.

Very closely monitor the salinity level, and do it very slowly.

I was just scared because it showed me 1.020 for a while but I'm trying to do that very slowly

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

I was just scared because it showed me 1.020 for a while but I'm trying to do that very slowly

It showed 1.020 now?

What inhabitants are in the tank?

 

[Eggs]

It stalled at 1.030 and I didn't put any salt in there for a week

Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but did you add salt directly to your tank?

 

[littlehermit0]

Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but did you add salt directly to your tank?

No i wait like 24 hours until it dissolves in a container, of 1.025

 

[Garf]

It stalled at 1.030 and I didn't put any salt in there for a week, I use the same refractometer as Red Sea but it's another brand, the telescope thingy, I put like 0.3 L of freshwater in my 22L tank

That's about a 1.5% expected drop in salinity, which would take a very keen eye to detect.