Salinity dropped to 1.015

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I suspect what happened was I refilled the tank too high after the water change on Sunday and the ato line became submerged. My AIO is on my desk so it kept back siphoning down to the reservior and pumping rodi up. I checked the salinity of the rodi and sure enough it was also 1.015. Even with the ease of an electronic salinity checker I still failed to check it often enough to catch this sooner.
I knew I needed to raise it back slowly but the fish were swimming erratically so I panicked and bumped it up to 1.020. They're ok now but a few corals are still angry. I'll slowly raise it back to 1.025 over the week.
 
I suspect what happened was I refilled the tank too high after the water change on Sunday and the ato line became submerged. My AIO is on my desk so it kept back siphoning down to the reservior and pumping rodi up. I checked the salinity of the rodi and sure enough it was also 1.015. Even with the ease of an electronic salinity checker I still failed to check it often enough to catch this sooner.
I knew I needed to raise it back slowly but the fish were swimming erratically so I panicked and bumped it up to 1.020. They're ok now but a few corals are still angry. I'll slowly raise it back to 1.025 over the week.
My buddy was at 1.021 today he added 5 gallons of saltwater raised it to 1.025 fast no problems
 

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