High Salt Readings

Hi
When i filled my tank with water i added the salt a day or two later, waited for the temperature to rise to aid dissolveing, it read 1.025 great.
But since i have added my hydor koralia 2 powerhead, it must of disturbed the salt at the bottom and mixed it more now i have a reading of 1.028 is this way to high, i have 1 yellow tailed damsel cycling my tank at the mo?

 

take some water out, and slowly add fresh water (over like a day or two) until SG is lowered till desired level

 

Ditto, what he said.

 

lol ok Cheers

 

Oh Forgot to ask should i do anything to the fresh water , R/O of course before i add it?

 

test it

 

ok i got that bit & anything else, like air stone?/temp?/ph?/ or can i just add r/o water?

 

depending on tank size if its say 50 gallons then pull about 3 to 4 gals out and replace with freshwater. That should put you near to 1.024 or 1.025 also how are you testing the salinity ?

 

It is a 50 gallon & i have a 2 inch gap from the top water free, i left it there for when i add rocks, so will just top up, i use a refractometer to test the salinity.

 

I take my SG readings every other day. If it's high I top-off with RO/DI fresh water simply labelled "T" for top-off. If it's to low I top-off with RO/DI 1.023 premixed water, labelled "ST". That keeps me at 1.025 on the button.

I always have 5 gallons of fresh and 5 gallons of pre-mixed on hand at all times for top-offs only.

I also do 10 gallons of RO/DI pre-mixed for water changes weekly. To get around the 1.023 pre-mixed dropping my SG from 1.025 I take out 9 gallons and add back 10 of the pre-mixed. Then I know my next top-off will be fresh water with minimal increase in my SG.

It's been working like a champ for me. Hope I made sense in describing it.