Today's Poll: Salinity

Where do you keep Salinity at?

  • 1.021

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 1.022

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 1.023

    Votes: 3 5.3%
  • 1.024

    Votes: 2 3.5%
  • 1.025

    Votes: 29 50.9%
  • 1.026

    Votes: 22 38.6%
  • 1.027

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • Total voters
    57
I like salty things.
As for the saltiness of my tank water, I always shoot for 1.025 but I’ve let it be as low as 1.023 before. I’m cool with anything in between.


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I just got a couple orders from LiveAquaria.. fish/shrimp from WI facility, and a fish from CA facility. Both had SG of 1.030!!

I double checked the calibration of refractometer, it was right. Any idea why they keep it so high?
 
I just got a couple orders from LiveAquaria.. fish/shrimp from WI facility, and a fish from CA facility. Both had SG of 1.030!!

I double checked the calibration of refractometer, it was right. Any idea why they keep it so high?


Interesting. Could it perhaps have more dissolved oxygen in increasing specific gravity?
 
I just got a couple orders from LiveAquaria.. fish/shrimp from WI facility, and a fish from CA facility. Both had SG of 1.030!!

I double checked the calibration of refractometer, it was right. Any idea why they keep it so high?


Interesting. Could it perhaps have more dissolved oxygen in increasing specific gravity?

Dude... I’m not surprised with LA. I will never buy from them again. They say they QT divers den for 3 weeks at least, sometimes months. That is a load of CRAP


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Ok it works on safari. Wow I’m surprised with the 1.025 being the majority. I thought 026 was natural sea water. But I guess it might depend what sea


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So just so we all know. I spoke to reeftopia about what their SG was for their clean up crew when shipped because fed-ex was late with the delivery. he said the sg was between 1.030-1.032. I know they harvest from FL where the water is a higher SG than our reef tanks. Just a fyi [emoji16][emoji848]


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I always shoot for 1.026 but sometimes my bad eyes bring it to 1.028 with a refractometer , time for a digital readout I guess.
 
1.026 with Milwaukee (great tool for those of us with bad eye sight) been considering dropping to1.025. This thread will help that decision, thanx.
 
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