Low Salinity and Corals HELP

[Frag Freaks]

Well have a big problem.

I just caught my salinity very low. Seems my refractometer was reading wrong. For some reason I decided that i would recalibrate my refractometer since i havent since I got it a few months back and I found that my SG is only 1.018 which is extremely low. I recently have just added a sebea anenome about a week ago and today just added pulsating xenia and leather toadstool. How long will low salinity take to start killing corals to the point of no recovery. I already did a water change to start getting the SG upand i will be doing one everyday until its fixed. All i want to know is are my corals and anenomes in danger of dying in the next few days while i raise the SG or will low SG take weeks to fully kill a coral.

I think the low salinity was also the cause of my ALK being so low before.

 

[Frag Freaks]

anyone?

 

[meemoo]

You want to raise the SG slowly, but that's awfully low I'm surprised the corals lasted that long, but what do I know I'm just an amatuer. Hopefully someone else will chime in.

 

[deadhermitwalkin]

Raise...

Go raise your salinity. Slowly. If your waiting here for the answer to your question that you already know what the solution is, at this point your simply losing time. Not that big of an issue. Just raise it slowly.

 

[nichols]

All you can do at this point is slowly raise your S.G. FWIW 1.018 isn't that low. A little over a year ago I left an RODI line running in the 55 gal sump on my 75 gal reef for about 24 hrs. By the time I caught this my S.G. had dropped from 1.025 to 1.008. I lost all the xenia I had in the tank and three acros. Everything else survived. I don't think you have too much to worry about.

 

[Frag Freaks]

do you think i will lose all my xenia?

 

[APISTOBORELLI]

If you raise to 1.022 or so between now and say Monday evening you should be fine. Slow and steady wins the race.

 

[stevenp]

I wouldn't be too concerned about the Xenia; if it all dies you can easily find some for free from another member.

Steve

 

[nichols]

do you think i will lose all my xenia?

I think if you were going to lose your zenia it would be dead already.

 

[Cheetos]

do you think i will lose all my xenia?

Personally I don't think it is possible to kill xenia but if you do lose it I have plenty that you can have!

 

[Frag Freaks]

Personally I don't think it is possible to kill xenia but if you do lose it I have plenty that you can have!

Thanks. I will let everyone knows what happens.