Extremely low salinity Updated!!!

[bigmac]

So after three years; I finally decided to purchase a refractometer (after relying totally on a Deep six beginnner plastic toy). I figured I'd better get with the game as far as testing.
After calibrating it three times to make sure my readings were correct; I have tested my water now 4 times and i now know why my past ich issues disappeared...........wait for it.......... 1.005. There, i said it.
I'm appalled and shocked at my lack of proper testing.

So over the next two weeks I will very slowly start to raise it to proper levels. I just thought I'd post this for everyone to see and shame myself into "bringing it to the next level".

[Skimmerking]

what i would do is get a 2 gal pail and make a huge strong batch of SALT water and drip it over 1 night. then wait 12 hours and do it again

hey man what is the size of your tank
you have a sump with it

[FitoPharmer]

can you mix salt at a super high salinity without damaging the nutrient levels in the salt? i found even if i leave a small pile of salt in my sump for long enough the calcium will sometimes precipitate into flakes instead of being properly absorbed. and that only took a few hours.

[Skimmerking]

hey man ya i just mix up say double the salinty and then drip it i know of some guys on RC that warm the water up to get more salt in to the water.

[Zoaelite]

Wow funny that this happened to you as the EXACT opposite happened when I purchased my refractometer. I re-calibrated it like 4 times because I thought that 1.030 had to be a misreading but apparently it was correct so over 4 days I dropped it down to 1.024.
Levi

[BlueTang<3]

i guess the tank was fish only nows the time if you got some mollys to throw them in lol