I've had my goby dragon about 2 months now. I origanally put in 7 1/2 tsp. of AQUARIUM SALT per gallon. Is this not same as SEA SALT? Also, bought hydrometer. How fast or slow should I add SEA SALT to Dragons tank? The hydrometer reading is at 1.002. It should be between 1.006-1.008, from what I've read.
Brackish tank set-up, help!?
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Alwayswantedadragon;4777361; said:
Welcome to MFK!
Marine salt is 100% different than aquarium salt, your correct. I would do water changes until our confident all of the aquatium salt is removed from the water column. Mix marine salt in a bucket and do a 25% water changes with the mixed water every two weeks. The reading in the bucket your mixing should be no more than 1.002 at first and increased no more than that each water change. If you exceed that you risk killing off your biological bacteria. Eventually you will reach your desired salinity.
Be mindful marine salt does not evaporate. Removing water and adding new water with a new salinity reading with change your tank because only removing water will remove salt.. Hope that makes sense GL.
Thanks for the Welcome!, Filamentosum. My Dragon has a very fine grain sand substrate. Will this affect the out come? The aquarium salt overload I did, will that make my dragon ill? Also, should I bring the new 25% water change, with sea salt, to the tank temperature?
Alwayswantedadragon;4777881; said:
Your welcome. The aquarium salt should not make your goby ill. Just keep doing water changes to remove it before adding the marine salt. I am not sure of the affects of both but I would not risk it. WHat size tank are we talkin?
Dragon was originally in 10 gallon. Then moved to 20 gallon, a nice longer tank. I'm moving Dragon to 40 gal., long type. I'll be adding more filtration and maybe e few plants. The 40 gal. has been set up from scratch. There's only treated tap water in it, fine sand, a Whisper power filter, a 200 watt submersible heater that I set for 76*-77*. Tanks been running now for 4 days. Dragon is a baby, only 6 1/2". He doesn't hide most of the time. He does "people watching"! I'll get a larger tank as he grows. I wanted to make sure that I could treat/raise properly, before I invested in an enormous tank w/stand, WHICH DRAGON WILL NEED! I know, it will hopefully be healthy and grow to at least 24".