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Bookmark or Share- Ideal Salinity | Reef2ReefIf the organisms in the aquarium are from brackish environments with lower salinity, or from the Red Sea with higher salinity, selecting something other than 35 ppt may make good sense. Otherwise, I suggest targeting a target salinity of 35 ppt (specific gravity = 1.0264; conductivity = 53 mS/cm).
- Pros and Cons of Alkalinity and Calcium Dosing MethodsAnother method is to dose more than evaporation and then do water changes with hypersaline (extra salty) water to maintain salinity. That method increases complexity. At the same time, I do not recommend dosing kalkwasser based on pH alone without monitoring alk since alk may get too high in many systems before the pH target is attained.
- DIY Salinity calibration solutions | Reef2Reef"The current definition for Practical Salinity states: a seawater of Practical Salinity 35 has a conductivity ratio of unity at 15 degrees Centigrade (and 1 atmosphere pressure) with a potassium chloride (KCl) solution containing a mass of 32.4356 grams of KCl per kilogram of solution. "
- How to raise salinity. | Reef2ReefI just bought a Hanna salinity checker and checked both the water I was mixing and the tank water. For a while I’ve been using a secondhand refractometer, which I’ve never calibrated myself (rookie mistake, I know). I’ve always tested it to ppm, and it’s come up as 1.024 specific gravity.
- 1.025 vs 35 ppt - often used interchangeably? | Reef2ReefI rejoined the hobby back ~2016, and everyone seemed to agree that 1.025 was the perfect salinity. Lately though, more and more I've been hearing that 35 ppt is what you should target for mixed reef or SPS dom. It's strange to me that these are often used interchangeably, since 1.025 is really...
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