So I rescued a 60 gallon salt water aquarium from a friend of a friend today which was stocked with a clown fish, a blue tang, a butterfly fish, a blue damsel and another yellow fish I am yet to identify. I moved the aquarium fish and all the water about 15 minutes to my house. Cleaned the sand and added 20 lbs of new live sand. Got all the fish back in and added two cleaner shrimp and a few snails as recommended by my lfs which specializes in salt water. The fish for the most part seem to be doing ok except for the blue tang which wont come out from under a rock on her side. Within an hour both cleaner shrimp were dead and the snails look like they may be also. I tested the salt content and it is around 22 which as far as I can tell low. I am assuming that the fish were used to this and the new shrimp were not. Do I need to slowly raise the salt content so as not to shock the existing fish that were living in this water? Any help or recommendations would be appreciated as it's Sunday evening and my lfs is closed till tomorow and I am worried about the fish making it till then.
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