1.035-30 salinity in the Mediterranean sea?!!??!!?

[littlehermit0]

So today I made a new "Mediterranean" tank with some animals from the beach, and the small problem is that the salinity is pretty weird there, that's why my eyes were burning but believe it or not it's at 1.030 and sometimes 1.035, my probe is calibrated and good, so should I keep them at that salinity or change it slowly?

 

[gbroadbridge]

So today I made a new "Mediterranean" tank with some animals from the beach, and the small problem is that the salinity is pretty weird there, that's why my eyes were burning but believe it or not it's at 1.030 and sometimes 1.035, my probe is calibrated and good, so should I keep them at that salinity or change it slowly?

What is your measurement device and what did you use to calibrate it?

But if you're measuring sea water close to shore, there are many things that could affect salinity.

 

[Subsea]

So today I made a new "Mediterranean" tank with some animals from the beach, and the small problem is that the salinity is pretty weird there, that's why my eyes were burning but believe it or not it's at 1.030 and sometimes 1.035, my probe is calibrated and good, so should I keep them at that salinity or change it slowly?

It depends on what are “some animals from the beach”?

I run my Gulf of Mexico invertebrate tanks at 1.028: these include sponges, flame scallops & sea apples.

 

[littlehermit0]

What is your measurement device and what did you use to calibrate it?

But if you're measuring sea water close to shore, there are many things that could affect salinity.

Refractometer, one of those telescopes.
I agree but I forget that this can happen but the water is now filtered just like in a normal tank so nothing should be affected

 

[littlehermit0]

It depends on what are “some animals from the beach”?

I run my Gulf of Mexico invertebrate tanks at 1.028: these include sponges, flame scallops & sea apples.

I have 2 live rock and there's literally everything, lots of sponges, aiptasia looking like anemones, other anemones, weird spiky nudibranch, brittle stars, crabs, shrimps and many other that are hiding even some weird spiders and moving sand, I do have some mussels and I feed them plankton

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

So today I made a new "Mediterranean" tank with some animals from the beach, and the small problem is that the salinity is pretty weird there, that's why my eyes were burning but believe it or not it's at 1.030 and sometimes 1.035, my probe is calibrated and good, so should I keep them at that salinity or change it slowly?

https://greekreporter.com/2022/03/04/mediterranean-sea-salt/

The Mediterranean Sea, however, has very high salinity – 38 ppt or more. It is almost closed from the Atlantic Ocean, and there is three times more evaporation than there is rain or freshwater flowing into it from rivers.


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[Subsea]

I have 2 live rock and there's literally everything, lots of sponges, aiptasia looking like anemones, other anemones, weird spiky nudibranch, brittle stars, crabs, shrimps and many other that are hiding even some weird spiders and moving sand, I do have some mussels and I feed them plankton

Wherever the live rock was collected is the salinity I would run. Show us some pictures.

 

[littlehermit0]

Wherever the live rock was collected is the salinity I would run. Show us some pictures.

I'm on vacation so it's a temporary tank, they will have a way bigger one, but I can't make a new one with that salinity otherwise too much tanks in my house, I have a cold tank already

 

[DanyL]

Yes, Salinity in the Mediterranean is higher than in most places, though the Red Sea is actually even higher at >40ppt.

I actually use Mediterranean water to run both of my reef tanks, and been doing it for 17 years with great success.

I do however, dilute it 1:4 - 1L RODI water to 4L seawater, more so because most of the corals you can get are used to a lower salinity and take time to get used to a different level - but one could acclimate them to a higher salinity just fine.

 

[littlehermit0]

Wherever the live rock was collected is the salinity I would run. Show us some pictures.

Also I forgot to show the pics, sorry I was busy

3 litre tank, I'll move them to a bigger one probably 50L

I'm super shocked that this sea seems so tropical, the coralline is CRAZY, I paid a lot for caribsea live rock while I could just take some from the south France beach that has very shining beautiful pink coralline that has less hitchhikers, the water is warm too