Does salinity matter in a cycle?

[Maverick00]

Originally Posted by TimT

I would bring the salinity down a little via water changes as Aquattro suggested but I would also add in an ammonia neutralizer.

What are you checking your salinity with? The plastic salinity checkers are notoriously off, sometimes up to 0.003.

mine was off .006 when i first started in the hobby but at least the numbers were easier to read than the refractometer :P