help please

[PuffersRforme]

Thanks for the info on how to test the salinity of my tank. I bought a hydrometer and read the instructions. I filled it with water and the white arrow inside is reading 1.004 for specific gravity. I do not understand where the reading is for salinity? Can anyone please explain how this thing works. Thanks me

[Pufferpunk]

Specific gravity is the measurement of salinity in your water. What fish are you keeping?

[jdak]

That is the salinity. Are you looking for the ppt reading? That means that .4% of your water volume is salt. What levels were you looking to achieve? Marine is above 1.020

[briguy44]

Yeah what they said.

PS I really like your avatar, it makes me laugh when i look at it.

[PuffersRforme]

Thanks i feel so stupid but you've gotta learn some way I have a 15 gallon tank two gsp's . I got them from wal mart the only place i have seen them in town. I am so sad when i go back into wal mart because they have about 8 gsp's in a 10 gallon tank and they are not looking healthy wish i could bring them all home and take care of them. anyway I am trying to get the correct salinity for these two guys i know that eventually they will need complete salinity but they are still pretty small. they make me so happy when i get home from work to see them come out of their little cave and wag their fins at me. My avatar reminded me of them because i could hear them crunching with those big teeth the first time i fed them they are so cuuuute but so voracious.

[JoseDepacos]

Curious....you know your tank is WAY too small for those gsp's right?

[PuffersRforme]

They are not very big yet. But i kow i will need to get a bigger tank for them soon. How fast do they grow?

[bigfatfish]

They are slow growers, but being in a small tank early on in life will stunt them to some extent. I know, I've been there & done it with my first GSP. He lived till 10 years old, but never got bigger than 3" (inc tail).