flanque
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Hi,
I lowered my salinity to help fight off a small whitespot outbreak on my new brown tankg. I lowered it down to 1.019. I was speaking to a friend who's had endless (I mean, for like a year now) trouble with whitespot (she just wont leave those blue tangs at the shop) and her advice was that you can lower your salinity "as fast as you want" but that you had to raise it "very slowly".
I lowered it from 1.025 to 1.019 over about a ten minute period. Everything seems to be OK but now that the whitespot is gone I'd like to raise the salinity back to "normal" levels.
The last time I had whitespot was around three years ago and adjusting my salinity was never part of the cure at the time so I'm new on the principles of salinity.
What's the best method? Can I raise it back just by topping off evaporation with salt water? I usually have to top up maybe ten litres each two days or so.
Cheers and thanks in advance.
I lowered my salinity to help fight off a small whitespot outbreak on my new brown tankg. I lowered it down to 1.019. I was speaking to a friend who's had endless (I mean, for like a year now) trouble with whitespot (she just wont leave those blue tangs at the shop) and her advice was that you can lower your salinity "as fast as you want" but that you had to raise it "very slowly".
I lowered it from 1.025 to 1.019 over about a ten minute period. Everything seems to be OK but now that the whitespot is gone I'd like to raise the salinity back to "normal" levels.
The last time I had whitespot was around three years ago and adjusting my salinity was never part of the cure at the time so I'm new on the principles of salinity.
What's the best method? Can I raise it back just by topping off evaporation with salt water? I usually have to top up maybe ten litres each two days or so.
Cheers and thanks in advance.