EMERGENCY!! Please HELP

[Myka]

Like I said, I would aim for about a week in your case or 0.001 per day if you find that easier to figure out. If salinity was low for longer you would have to take more time to raise it. Since the salinity hasn't been low for very long, you can raise it a bit faster.

Do you have an ATO? Personally, I would make the top up water super salty instead of fresh water. That would probably be the ideal way. Otherwise, I would just add 2 cups of salt to the sump at a time several times a day. That shouldn't change it very quickly on a tank your size. If all else fails you could remove 5 gallons of tank water, add about 10 cups of salt and pour it back into the sump, but that will make the salinity increase in jumps. Whichever way you choose to raise salinity, figure out how much that changes it on each "dose" (or each hour with the ATO) to make sure it isn't going up too fast, recheck at the end of the day. If you're using a hydrometer, make sure it is calibrated with a refractometer. If you don't have a refractometer maybe Doug (fishytime) can calibrate the hydrometer for you while you're picking up salt at the store.

Doing changes with high salinity water like SG 1.030 would waste a lot of water and a lot of salt (throwing out the water you remove), not to mention take you about 5 years to get the salinity up.

My guess is your Hippo Tang will have an Ich outbreak after this. Dang Hippos...

[doobiej]

a big thanks to fishytime, I am heading in to meet him at his store.

temperature is getting back to normal. at 75.5 now.

my corals are really looking bad though. man I hope they pull through.

my daughter ( 3 years old ) just told me I needed medicine for the corals cause they werent feeling so well.....

[Edmonton newbie]

wow doug thats a great offer there kinda warms a guy to know there are still people that care that much

[Ross]

Sorry I didnt read this earlier, I have a bunch you could use...
pm me if you need a hand

[Coleus]

Originally Posted by doobiej

a big thanks to fishytime, I am heading in to meet him at his store.

temperature is getting back to normal. at 75.5 now.

my corals are really looking bad though. man I hope they pull through.

my daughter ( 3 years old ) just told me I needed medicine for the corals cause they werent feeling so well.....

Hope everything pull through

[Myka]

Do you have a spare tank? You could move corals to that tank? Raise the salinity real fast. Corals would prob prefer that, but you would kill the fish and inverts raising salinity fast. Also keep an eye on ammonia as you will probably get some die-off from this. Those SeaChem Ammonia Alerts are great, they actually work quite well.

[doobiej]

i dont know if my corals will last a week if I raise it through ATO ( i do have a dosing pump for this).

thanks to fishytime, I have 2 pails of salt to work with.

i have 60 gallons of 1.04 mixed up, aerated, and heated now.

I just changed out 5 gallons and will see how much it raises.

my hippo was looking really bad, but seems to have recoverd a little now that the temp is back up and i have fed them.

corals look bad :-(

im gonna let the water circulate for half hour ( running about 2000gph through my sump) and then do another change and keep an eye on my livestock.

is targetting .005 per day too much? im scared that if I leave it to long im gonna lose all my corals

[DiverDude]

<raises a glass> Here's to Doug and Red Coral. For service above and beyond the call. Cheers !

And Merry Christmas to you.

[doobiej]

thanks for the advice myka,

I dont have another tank unfortunately. I did notice a gazillion tiny baby snail shells in my sump :-( i do have a refractometer thats brand new and calibrated like 2 weeks ago.

ok, so I decided to swap out 30 gallons of mixed up 1.04 and I move to 1.017 from 1.015. im gonna leave it for today

i realize it will take more water and salt to do it this way but my thinking is that water changes will help keep my levels in check during this process?

you think I would be safe doing a 30 gallon change each day until I get back to normal? figure it will take 4 more changes. or will a 30 gallon change at 1.04 not raise it .002 as the salinity increases?

i dont mind doing the changes, I have 2 r/0 machines running that can give me 30 gallons of R/0 in an hour.

[doobiej]

and yes a big toast to doug at Red Coral for helping me out. i was panicked this morning when I realized what happend and that I had no salt and dont know anyone else in airdrie that does this kinda stuff.