Excuse the fry puffer problem but help please! :)
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 8:49 pm
So, I have tried to think of a way to say this to make myself seem less dumb but there really isn't any way to do it so here we go 
I have a GSP. I inherited it from a friend that had it in freshwater. I thought i was was smart because I knew that I was going to have to slowly convert it to brackish water. I went to my lfs and got me some freshwater aquarium salt and tried to raise the salinity by .002. I put in the dissolved salt little by little checking the salinity after every little bit until I ended up putting about 1.5 cups of the salt into my fully cycled 20 gallon tank without it even raising the salinity. I decided to stop adding more and look a little further into things just to discover that I need marine salt rather than freshwater salt. I have the marine salt but I am wondering if it will be bad to add the instant ocean in with the freshwater salt. Should I just start converting to brackish conditions normally (like the threads on here have explained) or would you all try something different? Is the salt that I did add way too much even though it didn't really raise the salinity? Will it hurt my bacteria or my fish? I did it 2 days ago and there is still no ammonia or nitrite and the fish are still looking and acting healthy. Thanks for your help in advance!
I have a GSP. I inherited it from a friend that had it in freshwater. I thought i was was smart because I knew that I was going to have to slowly convert it to brackish water. I went to my lfs and got me some freshwater aquarium salt and tried to raise the salinity by .002. I put in the dissolved salt little by little checking the salinity after every little bit until I ended up putting about 1.5 cups of the salt into my fully cycled 20 gallon tank without it even raising the salinity. I decided to stop adding more and look a little further into things just to discover that I need marine salt rather than freshwater salt. I have the marine salt but I am wondering if it will be bad to add the instant ocean in with the freshwater salt. Should I just start converting to brackish conditions normally (like the threads on here have explained) or would you all try something different? Is the salt that I did add way too much even though it didn't really raise the salinity? Will it hurt my bacteria or my fish? I did it 2 days ago and there is still no ammonia or nitrite and the fish are still looking and acting healthy. Thanks for your help in advance!
