hello,
i'm starting a new sw tank...so i started salting up my water and now i have a question. my tank is a 55 gallon, and i bought enough instant ocean salt for 55 gallons of water. now, given that there is sand in there, there is perhaps less than 55 gallons of water, right? so that means i don't use all of my salt.
well, i decided to be slow and conservative and probably dumped a little more than 75 percent of the salt so i could wait for the salt to dissolve and measure my SG slowly. funny thing is, this morning, i read it more than a few times, and its coming up 1.020...and i would suspect it should be way lower than that considering i didn't use nearly all of my salt. temp is steady at 78 and i swear that i can't be that retarded using the hydrometer. what's going on?
thanks for any feedback...
i'm starting a new sw tank...so i started salting up my water and now i have a question. my tank is a 55 gallon, and i bought enough instant ocean salt for 55 gallons of water. now, given that there is sand in there, there is perhaps less than 55 gallons of water, right? so that means i don't use all of my salt.
well, i decided to be slow and conservative and probably dumped a little more than 75 percent of the salt so i could wait for the salt to dissolve and measure my SG slowly. funny thing is, this morning, i read it more than a few times, and its coming up 1.020...and i would suspect it should be way lower than that considering i didn't use nearly all of my salt. temp is steady at 78 and i swear that i can't be that retarded using the hydrometer. what's going on?
thanks for any feedback...