Hi thanks for the helpful response, it helps me along the way to try and figure out if the GH is enough for them, they’re currently at a salinity of 1.005-1.006, I’m thinking of increasing that to 1.007 so that’s the concentration of 1/4 seawater, they’re still very small so I’m not sure if that’s too early.
Your response suggested what I believed that I should not have used products to increase the GH even further after adding instant ocean but many on other forums and some manufacturers encouraged me to do so despite knowing I used instant ocean stating the water had no GH because I used reverse osmosis water and they would die of osmotic shock. 1 manufacturer ntlabs stated differently that I shouldn’t be adding more minerals.
I now know how to calculate the GH in the water by only counting the minerals so would you agree basically if the minerals aka magnesium and calcium and potassium in the salinity of the aquarium are already creating higher GH than they recommend for this fish I should not be increasing the GH with products such as Seachem Replenish and there’s no risk of osmotic stress using Instant ocean and reverse osmosis water? I know I still need to keep an eye on the water KH separately.
thanks again
