i keep my salinity at 1.026 personally. but i lower mine by doing water changes. i will keep the salinity low in the water i am getting ready to add to the tank, but in the future if your [FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]salinty is real high and you want to bring it down, you need to do it slowly, just to make sure you dont send anything into shock. but you are not far off from you wanna be. [/FONT]