Table 2. Temperature (°C), salinity (psu), specific conductivity (μS/cm) and pH of the treatment tanks averaged across the acclimation and experimental period for the metabolism experiment.

Standard deviations are in parentheses.

Treatment	Salinity (SD)	Temp (SD)	Sp. Cond (SD)	pH (SD)
0.4 psu	0.4 (0.00)	16.12 (0.48)	870.8 (16.3)	8.37 (0.19)
2.0 psu	2.01 (0.03)	16.11 (0.10)	3,821 (39)	8.62 (0.05)
12.0 psu	12.01 (0.06)	15.88 (0.07)	20,060 (100)	8.52 (0.07)