What salinity do you keep your FOWLF tanks?

[Reesj]

What salinity do you guys keep your FOWLR ? Sepcially bit larger tanks than 50g?
All the large FOWLR tanks I see in youtube abover 180 gallon does not seems to have any cleanup crew like shrimp or snails. Are they going low salinity with those big fish ?
Trying to setup my 180 gallon FOWLR and would like to get some srimp in there. Which means might need to have abover 1.024 salinity.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I don't have a fowlr tank, but people I know usually keep their tanks around 1.024-1.026

 

[Reefer Matt]

I aim for 1.020 sg. in my 135g fowlr, just to save a little on salt. The fish don’t mind at all. I don’t have any inverts in there as the fish would eat them. (Predator tank)

 

[Reesj]

Its amazing that no vote for 1.023 or 1.024 . I guess peopel tend to keep it at NSW level or a lot below that level. I was hoping to go around 1.022 with inverters and see if they will be ok.

 

[AydenLincoln]

1.026 but for the part any of the above range is acceptable and fish are less sensitive than corals and inverts. But stability is better than a varying/swinging number.

 

[JC1977]

I used to keep my FOWLR at 1.020 but realized I wasn’t really saving that much $$ so now I keep it at 1.023.

 

[kados]

1.020 for a semi- aggressive/predator 180g here

 

[GT3000XX]

1.020 here

 

[mpatterson42]

I'm planning on setting up a 40G FOWLR in a couple of months and was thinking of keeping the salinity at 1.022. In fact my LFS sells 1.022 saltwater for FOWLR tanks. But I was also wanting to get a mandarin dragonet and was going to seed cocoapods and run a refugium, and I'm not sure how the cocoapods would do at 1.022, anyone have any experience?

 

[JC1977]

I'm planning on setting up a 40G FOWLR in a couple of months and was thinking of keeping the salinity at 1.022. In fact my LFS sells 1.022 saltwater for FOWLR tanks. But I was also wanting to get a mandarin dragonet and was going to seed cocoapods and run a refugium, and I'm not sure how the cocoapods would do at 1.022, anyone have any experience?

I would say 1.022 is fine. I keep my FOWLR at 1.023 and have lots of pods.

 

[jonnywink]

I try to keep mine at 1.025

 

[Miami Reef]

If I had a FOWLR, I’d probably keep it around 35ppt.

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

Used to go with 1.022 in my Fowlr days, fish don't seem to care as much. Easier to do the wc's with IO bags. Drain 50 gals, pump in 50 gals, use one 50g rated bag of salt.