Salinity for pelagic spawners

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xroads
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Salinity for pelagic spawners - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 12:07 PM
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I know I have seen it for, but forgive me, I couldnt find it in the forums.
 
What is the best salinity for pelagic spawners?
 
I usually try to keep my systems around 1.025, but I thought I read somewhere that lowering the salinity a little helped the eggs float better?
 
Am I way off course here?

EasterEggs
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Re:Salinity for pelagic spawners - Monday, October 27, 2014 12:17 AM
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I don't know in terms of pelagic spawners, but higher salinity making the eggs float better would make more sense as the more salt in the water the denser it is.
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Re:Salinity for pelagic spawners - Friday, October 31, 2014 2:45 PM
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A specific gravity of 1.025 is what we use with our projects on Snook, Pompano and Red fish at my facility. While they may not be "reef" fish, I don't see why this should not be sufficient.   

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Re:Salinity for pelagic spawners - Saturday, November 1, 2014 2:12 AM
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I always worked with full strength salinity.  You might want to dig up Todd's articles on Liopropoma and see if he did anything different, but I suspect the same.  My logic is simply this - we should start with a baseline approximation of natural conditions first...and only if that's not working out should we then deviate.