cloudy water

[Convict2161]

It doesn't look like anything I googled but he said it was. He tested my water and said my salt was 1.030 my hydrometer says 1.026 without any bubbles he told me to remove 3 gal and add fresh and use 1.020 on my hydrometer .

I'm confused. What does he mean use 1.020?

 

[kwandrsn]

put my salt at that on my hydrometer

 

[Convict2161]

put my salt at that on my hydrometer

Oh I guess he's saying yours is reading low? Of get a refractometer and call it a day. Your better off in the end.

 

[kwandrsn]

yes he is saying its reading low. I didn't check it this morning but yesterday my hydrometer said 1.026

 

[kwandrsn]

Anyone ever use the bio cube mini hydrometer you suction cup to the glass and leave?

 

[Convict2161]

Anyone ever use the bio cube mini hydrometer you suction cup to the glass and leave?

It's garbage, fill it with regular water and put a bamboo plant in it

 

[kwandrsn]

Ok so I got home checked with my hydrometer it was reading just a hair over 26 so I'm pulling water out and putting fresh in so should I aim for 1.021? bought bio spira but not putting out I'm until I get salt right

 

[Convict2161]

Ok so I got home checked with my hydrometer it was reading just a hair over 26 so I'm pulling water out and putting fresh in so should I aim for 1.021? bought bio spira but not putting out I'm until I get salt right

You can put the bio spira in whenever you want. You salinity 1.023-1.026 I'd it's fish only (FOWLR) then 1.020-1.025

http://www.liveaquaria.com/general/general.cfm?general_pagesid=352

 

[kwandrsn]

What I was asking was the guy used a refractometer and said my water is 1.030 and my io hydrometer says just a hair over 1.026 so if I use my hydrometer and get my level down to 1.021 on my hydrometer then it should actually be 1.025 ?

 

[kwandrsn]

I'll eventually buy a refractometer.

If I make up a 5 gallon bucket of salt water and let it mix with a pump for a few days how long will it stay good for if I put a lid on the bucket? Thought about going ahead and mixing, some just to have it

 

[Convict2161]

I'll eventually buy a refractometer.

If I make up a 5 gallon bucket of salt water and let it mix with a pump for a few days how long will it stay good for if I put a lid on the bucket? Thought about going ahead and mixing, some just to have it

I'd say a few days at the most. You wanna keep a pump going in it to keep it mixing. I've kept buckets for about a week. Before using it though I'd throw a power head and heater in and let it go for hours then add to my tank.

 

[kwandrsn]

Ok I will wait then. The bio spira made, my tank cloudy :-(
Hey get this the person at a petco told me you can cycle a saltwater tank with a molly and you can acclimate one to saltwater in 15 min lmfao

 

[kwandrsn]

Well I've done done reading and apparently the woman was right :-(

 

[Convict2161]

Really lol. I would have never guessed that one. Probably not a good idea anyway. Don't stress it.

The bio will make your tank cloudy. That's suppose to be the bacteria.

 

[kwandrsn]

Yeah apparently the molly can live in fresh brackish or salt lol. In the wild I guess the tide floods where they are with salt so they are constantly going thru different types of water lol

 

[Convict2161]

Yeah apparently the molly can live in fresh brackish or salt lol. In the wild I guess the tide floods where they are with salt so they are constantly going thru different types of water lol

Huh... Interesting. Gonna read about that

 

[kwandrsn]

Yeah I thought she was full of it. That's kinda cool.

 

[apet66]

Wow!!! A petco employee that knows her stuff. I'm impressed. They need to keep her.

 

[kwandrsn]

And she said the only knew what she has learned from there and what she had researched on her own lol.

 

[Convict2161]

Wow!!! A petco employee that knows her stuff. I'm impressed. They need to keep her.

Amen to that. Was just reading about it. Pretty interesting.