High salinity 1.029

[Bogartus]

I switched over from a 250 gallon tank to a 120 gallon tank. When I was pulling my coral and fish I'd mixed up 100 gallons of water but I put 200 gallons worth of salt. My salinity went from 1.025 to 1.029 in my new tank. I won't be able to do anything about it till tomorrow evening it's actually been that way for 24 hours just curious on thoughts about how bad that is I lost a couple chalices in the move. I think it was more from the temperature swing and stress I don't think it's from high salinity?

 

[asagi]

Why are you unable to do anything about it now? Drain 20 gallons from the display and replace it with fresh. A sudden salinity increase can kill all your corals.

 

[mattyzang]

i did 1.026 --> 1.034~ and it killed all corals and most inverts

battlecorals rolls with like 1.028~ and the red sea is somewhere in that realm of salinity so it might be more ok? my stuff was visibly not happy when i did it, most was dead by the next morning. but i didn't know it was the salinity as my refractometer told me it was 1.026 battlecorals got there a bit more slowly

 

[joseserrano]

I’d drop ASAP. And not slowly. Drop it to 26 asap

 

[Bogartus]

I went and got 20 gallons of RODI after I posted this and dropped to 1.026 Thanks for all your responses and input

 

[five.five-six]

I went and got 20 gallons of RODI after I posted this and dropped to 1.026 Thanks for all your responses and input

I make salt water in a 32 gallon bruit. It takes 4.44 kilos of IO to mix at .35ppt Where I have my float set to (about 28 gallons). I’ve been doing this for years and still I test the SG every time before I do a WC with it. It’s never off by more that .01ppt but still, I test every time.