I'm not saying you are nuts but I sure won't run a reef on constant hyposalinity. To each their own.
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I'm not saying you are nuts but I sure won't run a reef on constant hyposalinity. To each their own.
The only time you can tell if your "near" the end of your cycle is when you see Zero Ammonia and Nitrites and start to see the nitrates falling..
Niko
Niko
I would like to know more about this setup. Keeping invertibrates at that SG is very strange indeed. Its a fact that invertibrates actually prefer the SG to in the high scales (1.028 - 29) than to the norm (1.025) that we keep our tanks at..What inverts and corals do you keep in this system? I can certainly understand the theory behind keeping a tank at this SG level, but i dont understand the practical nature of doing so.
Maybe start a new thread..
Thanks
Niko
A bit mystified by it as well and would be interested in a new thread on it. Especially the lifespan of the inverts in hyposalinity.
very very doubtful. you cannot be keeping a reef in brackish conditions.
id bet you $20, that your hydrometer is just broken or not accurate.
id bet yer SG would read different with a calibrated refractometer.
Sorry to be the BS police, but yea, there is no way in hell you could keep the proper levels of calc, mag, etc in a SG that low. id really like to see what those levels are reading in your tank.
unless its like xenia, and mushies, i really dont see how its possible for you to be keeping corals verts and fish in those conditions.
your tank cannot support enough dissolved chemicals to support corals.
id get a refractometer and re-check your SG.
then maybe think twice about posting that you keep a reef in brackish conditions in a help forum. that can only lead to missunderstandings and missinformation.
unless its like xenia, and mushies, i really dont see how its possible for you to be keeping corals verts and fish in those conditions.
your tank cannot support enough dissolved chemicals to support corals.
id get a refractometer and re-check your SG.
then maybe think twice about posting that you keep a reef in brackish conditions in a help forum. that can only lead to missunderstandings and missinformation.
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Tanks have been running at hypo for 7 years, 10 years, 5 years, and one for almost 20. Never had a problem, never. No ill effect to pods, mysis, brine all do well, the only thing I culture at full stength are three types of phyto.
My fish don't get sick, my corals/inverts do well (thrive...not survive).
My fish don't get sick, my corals/inverts do well (thrive...not survive).
