SaltwaterTanks
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Hey guys, what’s the best way to lower salinity??
Lowering Salinity ???
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Billldg
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Slowly, I had the opposite, I had to raise it and did it thru my ATO, adding a low salinity solution, but did it over a 2 week period. You could do some water changes over a period of time, but would recommend only dropping your salinity of the new water by a couple points and drop it from their.
Arcticfirefighter
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Depends on why you are doing it. Is it an emergency, is it for something new, how did it get high? Need some additional info.
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Add fresh(non saltwater) gradually.
The old fadhioned way is to add fresh initially. Then every few hours remove a gallon of saltwater and add a gallon of fresh until you have achieved the desired salinity.
What salinity are you at now?
If it is 1.026, acceptable but not much higher
The old fadhioned way is to add fresh initially. Then every few hours remove a gallon of saltwater and add a gallon of fresh until you have achieved the desired salinity.
What salinity are you at now?
If it is 1.026, acceptable but not much higher
Arcticfirefighter
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Vetteguy +1.
If it's an emergency, you can do it a bit faster. I had to do an emergency tank move a week or so ago and ended up having to go from 1.017 to 1.026 in less than 12 hrs and the fish are fine. They were clowns, so they were more hardy than some others. It's easier to go the other way. So like Vetteguy said, take out saltwater like you are doing a normal water change, and then just add back in RO/DI water until you reach your desired salinity.
If it's an emergency, you can do it a bit faster. I had to do an emergency tank move a week or so ago and ended up having to go from 1.017 to 1.026 in less than 12 hrs and the fish are fine. They were clowns, so they were more hardy than some others. It's easier to go the other way. So like Vetteguy said, take out saltwater like you are doing a normal water change, and then just add back in RO/DI water until you reach your desired salinity.
WVNed
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The best way to lower salinity or raise it also is to accurately mix your water changes to what you want your SG to be and do them regularly. The tank will slowly come to be that SG over time. 0 stress on the tank. If you want to speed it up do the changes more often like every 2 days until it's where you want it.
Dr. Reef
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most fish can handle lowering of the salinity pretty well its increasing it that needs to be slow and easy. So its an emergency you can drop it quite fast otherwise do it gradually.
Dom
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Salinity is a ratio of parts salt mix to parts water. You can reduce the ratio of salt to water by adding more water. So if evaporation causes salinity to go up, adding water will cause it to go down.
