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What's the "right" salinity to run a reef tank at? To be honest, this is my first try at a non FOWLR tank, and now I've started doing some "extra" reading. I am reading that for reef tanks, you want:

"Full strength sea-water, Salinity 1.024 - 1.025"

In my FOWLR tanks, I already ran salinity around 1.022 (it's at 1.0225 right now)...

Anyone want to tell me that they are running high, and what a good reef reference (something that people trust) is?

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Most people run reefs at 1.025 but the problem with salinity is it depends on the temp. If you have a refractometer its better to base it on ppt. I keep mine at 35 ppt.
 
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I run my tank at salinity of 1.025-1.026 or so. I have always heard that if you run a tank at higher salinity and you have a fish that gets a disease or something you can lower your salinity to say 1.022 and it will help get rid of the disease. Now I don't know if that is entirely correct as I have never done it (I try to keep my fish and corals healthy :D ) but that is what I have heard.

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I keep the coral tank at 1.025, and the FOWLR at 1.022. The fish don't mind and the coral is thriving, so it works for me.
 
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I have mine at 1.026.

The higher concentration of dissolved salts provides a higher concentration of the elements the corals use for growth. The Red Sea is stated to have levels up to 1.027.

1.022 is honestly not that low to get rid of parasites. If you have a reef tank, dropping the salinity to 1.017 is more effective BUT DANGEROUS. Not only that if you drop the salinity level to slow, the parasites will adjust. its better to take your fish out and cure them elsewhere and go as low as 1.012
 
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When I had a FOWLR tank, I kept it around 1.018. I never had any problems with disease.
 
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:yell: blah blah here he goes again

I agree with the above 1.025 range...
It has been noted that species from the RED SEA, are used to living in a high salinity enviroment, and should be kept in such if they are to thrive. I keep mine at 1.025 to 1.026, but focus on the 1.025 as my goal...

There was a question about an anenome stated earlier, it seems to be pretty importtnt in the long run that thier salinity is kept stable and only increased or decreased salinity over a long period of time (not taken from store at 1.025 and put into your tank 1.021 after acclimating temperature for 30 minutes or so) ... It may not show short term harm( first couple of days) but may effect to the life length of said anen. This also is true of corals and inverts from high salinity seas...
And its been said already that if you have higher salinity then trace elements will be in higher concentrations, adn that also will help with calcium too!
 
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Wildfire said:
ReefKeeper,

Thanks for you online and PM input into my situation. You really helped out a lot. I must learn patience....... Truly, thanks again!
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Oh well. I guess we werent of any help. :(
 
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Now now invincible... please don't be that way. Everyone was very helpful, but I found the input from one user a little more targeted to what I needed answered. Everyone's input helped contribute to my decision to begin raising the salinity in the tank from the 1.0225 it was to around 1.0254 (which is where it is tonight). It took 3 days of gradual "saline" top-offs for evaporation to bring the level up, but now my xenia is starting to look a little better, so I think it's working.
 
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Wildfire said:
Now now invincible... please don't be that way. Everyone was very helpful, but I found the input from one user a little more targeted to what I needed answered. Everyone's input helped contribute to my decision to begin raising the salinity in the tank from the 1.0225 it was to around 1.0254 (which is where it is tonight). It took 3 days of gradual "saline" top-offs for evaporation to bring the level up, but now my xenia is starting to look a little better, so I think it's working.
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haha. I was just joshing you.
 
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Wild no problem.
I think this thread was very good on everyones part.
I had pm'd him about a few other things, so I appreciate the fact the WE ALL could help...
Thanks INVINCIBLE (hopefully I spelled it correctly :lol: )
 
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Did all the brittlestars acclimate to your tank well? Hey, you didn't by any chance test the water from my tank while you were at it, didja?

Sherri
 
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Sherri,

Yep, I've got about 2 dozen itty-bitty brittle starts crawling around in my fuge now.

Since I was mucking with salinity, I checked that yours was roughly equivalent to mine, but didn't get too precise. They matched "close enough" and I gave them a 4x15 minute + 30 min temp aclimation (about 1.5 hours total time).
 
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