A few days ago, my skimmer developed a leak by one of the connections to the recirc pump. I didnt have a chance to take care of it so I just closed the feed valve and went skimmerless for a few days. At the time, the leak filled the container the skimmer sits in ( for just these moments ) and filled it with about 3-4 gallons of tank water before I noticed the leak. So of course my ATO ( which will now be put on a timer to avoid these issues ) filled my sump with FW to compensate. I figured no big deal as I just dumped the SW from the container back into the sump. I thought it would correct over a day or two as the evaporation brought the water level to the correct height in the sump. So now I have a few minutes and was doing some tank maintainence ( fell behind when school started ) and checked the SG. It was 1.020 ( on both my swing arm and refractometer ) ! So I took a cup of salt mix and poured some into the sump and some into the resorvoir as I didnt have any SW handy to do a change ( I'm filling my RO as we speak ). Its a 65 gallon tank so it shouldnt raise the SG by more than a drop. How fast should I raise the SG? I figured I'll do a water change tomorrow. I'll have 2 5 gallon buckets at 1.025. I can make more as I use one up.
Funny thing is my livestock was doing well and the only problem is this cyano I've been battling for a couple of months ( new tank syndrome and lackadaisical water changes I guess ).
Funny thing is my livestock was doing well and the only problem is this cyano I've been battling for a couple of months ( new tank syndrome and lackadaisical water changes I guess ).
