Isn't high evaporation good for a tank?

[Anonymous]

The way I'm thinking, the more evaporation, the more you have to add fresh salt water into a tank. Isn't this better for the animals? Granted, it's a large pain in the rear, but it's better if they have a constant supply of fresh saltwater...right?

Can anyone enlighten me as to if I'm correct or incorrect here? Thanks...

Peace,

Chip

 

[Chucker]

Whoa! Water evaporates, nothing else. The salt is left behind. There should be no salt water added to replace topoff, just fresh water.

 

[liquid]

Now if you wanted to add more salt, you *could* set your skimmer to pull out a LOT of wet skimmate so that you pulled out like 1/2 to 1 gallon of skimmate per day and you could then replace *that* water with fresh saltwater.

It's a thought...

liquid

 

[jamesw]

Poor bugger. Had to learn that the hard way...:-(

 

[dbman]

is a good plan if you're doing a "dead sea" simulated environment

 

[esmithiii]

Chucker is 100% right... You only add freshwater to make up for evaportation. All the nasty stuff stays in the tank. In fact, if your freshwater source is not good, high evaporation only adds more toxins and/or nutrients to your tank.

E

 

[Anonymous]

I think I see where one of my problems is manifesting itself...

Thanks for the advice, guys...don't know why I missed that major part of reef keeping.

I'm off to check my salinity now...

Peace,

Chip