I'm going to be looking for another Gold Stripe Maroon clown because I lost my female today. I'm not really sure what happened, but my salinity was pretty low. Anyway, here are the questions.....

First: I've been skimming a little wetter than usual lately. Will this tend to take salt out of the water? Of course, when I topped off, I haven't been using saltwater. So, if the skimmer DOES take salt out of the water when skimming wet, I've naturally been lowering my salinity without even knowing it. (I'm asking because, after thinking about it for a bit, I might have heard this before.)

Second: If I'm going to try to replace my GSM, would I be better off getting a bigger one that is most likely a female already? Or, should I get one that is smaller than the male I already have, and let mine switch to a female? Or, does it really not matter because I'm going to have trouble getting a new one to pair up w/ the old one anyway?
(My thought would be to get one that is bigger than the one than I already have. Even if it's not a female, that fact that it's bigger will probably help to offset the territorial aggression that the current one will have toward the newcomer.)

Any help here would be appreciated. And, if you have a GSM you want/need to get rid of, shoot me a PM.