EMERGENCY!! Please HELP

[Myka]

Originally Posted by doobiej

i realize it will take more water and salt to do it this way but my thinking is that water changes will help keep my levels in check during this process?

you think I would be safe doing a 30 gallon change each day until I get back to normal? figure it will take 4 more changes. or will a 30 gallon change at 1.04 not raise it .002 as the salinity increases?

is targetting .005 per day too much? im scared that if I leave it to long im gonna lose all my corals

There is no need to do the changes. Which parameters are you concerned about? Adding more salt will keep "the big three" in check. Ammonia should be your biggest concern, and doing 5 gallon water changes on a 220 gallon tank will do nothing to fix that problem should it arise.

I don't think you will get as much of an increase as you're expecting doing it the way you are.

You might have to decide which is more important...fish and inverts or corals? Raising the salinity as fast as you plan will probably lead to the demise of most if not all of your fish and inverts. Any friends that could babysit your fish and inverts?

[Bloodasp]

Agred with myka. just dissolve a half a cup or or a cup in a bit of water in your sump a day and measure how much that changes your salinity. And do the same thing adding more or less salt than what you added the day before depending on how much it increased.
What I did in mine when that happened when I forgot to put the switch of my ato back into my sump dumping about 3 gals into my tank was leave it and let evaporation take care or removing excess water.