Please help!

[islandreef]

That way he doesn't have to monitor it and it will slowly replace the evaporated water with fresh saltwater, it wont happen all at one time so every time it kicks on the salinity will slowly climb back up. Sounds like a plan to me.

 

[dawgface]

I must stress while this will not enitrely get you back to square, it will bring it back slowly and will not overcompensate. I would continue this route when you return and until you are at your desire range.

 

[rdnelson]

While the SW in the ATO sounds reasonable, I would also have the reservations Dakota is expressing. My worry would be "what did I NOT account for". But that is just me. Having said that, the sudden drop in SG most likely stressed the fish IMO. Bringing it up too fast or too far is going to stess them further. Since the OP will only be gone for two days, bringing it up a bit today and then waiting until Monday to bring it up more should have no ill affects IMO. But then again, I am pretty new at all this so take it with a gallon of saltwater. Pun intended.

 

[dawgface]

You could just leave it alone entirely and allow evaporation to fix it.

 

[rdnelson]

That was my thought too until I remembered the OP saying he removed the water. If he leaves it, it may drop low enough to cavitate the pump. If there is enough water to prevent that, I think evaporation would be the surest steadiest way.

DawgFace;716277 wrote: You could just leave it alone entirely and allow evaporation to fix it.

 

[falos]

I would lower the temp of The room the tank is in to around 60deg set the tank at 77 deg it will cause the evap rate to increase should he around .002-003 sg. Increase per day

 

[texhorns98]

Thanks for all the input guys! I had to run out on an errand. I DID remove the water so I could figure out how much had gone in there. In retrospect, I should have kept it instead of dumping it. My evap is actually crazy right now, so I can top off with new SW and just disconnect the ATO for now if that's what everyone agrees I should do.

 

[Jaycen B.]

dawgface;716264 wrote: with the assumption that before the ato malfunction his sg was correct, he dumped 15 gallons of fresh into the tank. Filling 15 gallons of salt in the ato to slowly replace evaporation seems pretty solid to me??

+1

I have done this a couple of times. It will work well as long as it does not malfunction again.