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bruce Fingerling Posts: 40 Kudos: 34 Votes: 0 Registered: 07-Feb-2005	How do you tell the gravity, I have never heard of this is only for some fish?
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:55
bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	i am not really sure but isn't that when u put the salt water into a divice and the pointer goes up and tells what the gravity is. i think it is only for salt water.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:55
bruce Fingerling Posts: 40 Kudos: 34 Votes: 0 Registered: 07-Feb-2005	Thanks, good thing I have a fresh water tank
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:55
aquatexan Banned Posts: 151 Votes: 1 Registered: 03-Aug-2004	Yeah its for saltwater tank. So don't worry bout it.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:55
bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	wow was i right???? that was a guess. cool. yea so it is for salt water don't worry about it.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:55
poisonwaffle Mega Fish Posts: 1397 Kudos: 591 Registered: 11-Feb-2003	Specific Gravity is the measure of the weight of a liquid per unit of volume. I forget the exact forumula, but pure freshwater has a SG of 1.0...Mercury has a SG of 14 (that's 14 times as dense as FW...bricks and bowlingballs will float in it , SW has a SG of 1.02-1.03ish (depending on the amount of salt in it), etc
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:55


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