Burningbaal Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 Help! I heard my wrasse might be hiding because he is alone in the tank, so I got three pajama cards today (Petco this time, but it's one of the nicer ones). I dripped for about an hour and a half (came with low salinity), then used safety stop for the first time.Just moved them from the blue to the tank and they're all dying! They looked fine in the blue! Sent from my SM-G935T using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burningbaal Posted August 19, 2019 Author Share Posted August 19, 2019 Nevermind... They're toastSent from my SM-G935T using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youcallmenny Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 Best not to drip acclimate fish. As soon as the bag is opened, any waste that comes in contact with oxygen turns to ammonia and becomes deadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burningbaal Posted August 19, 2019 Author Share Posted August 19, 2019 so I'm learning, but it was about a 12pt salinity difference. I think I'm going to be stuck doing a QT in the future just so I can safely bring salinity up over the course of a few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burningbaal Posted August 23, 2019 Author Share Posted August 23, 2019 I had a suspicion my refractometer might be off. Can and Mg are reading off the charts, stores are reading as really low salinity. When Petco checked my salinity, it was with a swing arm. I always call with rodi like it says to, but I decided to buy some 35ppt solution. Should read 1.0264Sent from my SM-G935T using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youcallmenny Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Did you calibrate it? They usually have a screw to zero it out before you take any readings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burningbaal Posted August 23, 2019 Author Share Posted August 23, 2019 Did you calibrate it? They usually have a screw to zero it out before you take any readings. Regularly cal'd with rodi. But my Mg and Ca were way high, noticed I was adding more salt per gallon than seemed right. So I bought the cal solution. Now when I look with ro water it reads about 1.009Sent from my SM-G935T using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrabbyCrabs Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 I've not see a standard refractometer that wants a calibration with rodi. It's normally 35ppt calibration fluid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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