08-09-2006, 04:41 PM
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The Muddy Mod
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Uxbridge, MA
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1.026....1.025 by the time it's ready for a WC.
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08-09-2006, 05:26 PM
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Professor Chaos
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Arkham Asylum
Posts: 9,756
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1.019-1.023
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08-09-2006, 05:38 PM
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moddin aint easy
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: newnan, ga
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i keep right around .021-.022, i would keep it higher, but i buy my ro/di and mixed salt water from a local fish store, and thats what they mix it at, so id either have to mix my own, or adjust theirs, and im lazy, so i keep it the same as theirs. its just easy.
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08-09-2006, 05:43 PM
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Saltwater Mom
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Ga
Posts: 5,800
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1.025 but that's with hydrometer, gonna have lfs double check and see what their meter shows and match up the hydrometer. Refractometer on the wish list tho.
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08-09-2006, 05:52 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Cottage Grove, Oregon
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Just make sure they use a refractometer, only the higher end LFS use them my LFS used a hydrometer and when I checked his water with my refractometer his was off as well, especially the brackish since his hydro wouldn't go low enough.
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08-09-2006, 06:02 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Lantana Florida
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I run 1.027 with an IO hyrometer so I am prob around 1.025. I entered higher that 1.026 on the survey.
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08-09-2006, 06:37 PM
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Oh no...not again!!!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Colorado Springs
Posts: 5,442
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1.026 because I was told once that is good for softies and my fish. The LFS keeps theirs at 1.023.
Of course when I tap the hydrometer it may change a couple.
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08-09-2006, 08:21 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 25,835
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1.0253
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08-09-2006, 09:22 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Montana
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1.026 I try to keep it withing +-.0005 of that.
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08-09-2006, 10:44 PM
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uber-stupid
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Biloxi, MS
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1.024259836728439 tested by taste and I was just recently calibrated so I am very accurate.
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08-09-2006, 10:51 PM
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Milkshake Man
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SW Florida
Posts: 9,641
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1.025 with a refractometer i calibrate weekly but it never is off.
Tim
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08-10-2006, 09:05 AM
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Stinky Slimey FEESH
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: San Antonio
Posts: 1,907
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I keep mine close to 1.025 using a refractometer, great investment, no more guessing!
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08-11-2006, 09:48 AM
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It can be rebuilt.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Pittsboro, NC
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here is an interesting article about salt and the ocean.
take note of the differences in salinity around the ocean. still trying to figure out why anybody would want to keep their tanks at anything less than what NSW is. 
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Friends Don't Let Friends Use Refugiums!
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08-11-2006, 10:15 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: bend, oregon
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Originally Posted by Geoff
. still trying to figure out why anybody would want to keep their tanks at anything less than what NSW is.
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Why else but to save a couple of dollars on the upkeep of our reef tanks worth THOUSANDS. 
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08-11-2006, 02:53 PM
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I loves me a water change
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: WI
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1.026 here. 
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