a new tank for halocaridina rubra

[loraxchatter]

How much Instant Ocean seasalt do I need to mix with water to set up a new 10 gallon tank? I've got a one gallon jar with lots of breeding halocarindina rubras. I want to move some shrimp over to see if I can breed more.
Also, can I put coral rock or dead coral into my new tank? Will that affect the water? All I have in my original jar is some gravel and 1 lava rock--I started out with 10 shrimp , and now I have over 40. The jar give to me had 1/2 strength sea water.

[Sal]

Buy a hydrometer . The floating one's are cheap enough and work or you could use one which stays in water .

http://www.marinedepot.com/Oceanic_BioC ... HD-vi.html

They are under $10 and your going to need one if your worried or looking for a certain salinity.Plus when you do water changes,etc you need one or your salinity will be off .

[thgng]

First, get yourself a weighing scale and a measuring cylinder.

You can use aquarium sea salt and bring the salinity to 8 - 10 ppt(part per thousand).

To get a 8 ppt salinity, you put 8 gram of salt for every 1000ml of water.

To get a 10 ppt salinity, you put 10 gram of salt for every 1000ml of water.

[opaeg]

According my research, very few people succeeded breeding under 10 ppt.
People who succeeded, average is about 20 ppt or 70% of salt water.
One person reported that it is possible if ppt is between 10 and 30.