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2 | 12.50% |
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10/10/2010, 05:17 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Natural Seawater or Artificial Seawater
Natural Seawater or Artificial Seawater
Which one is better? |
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10/10/2010, 06:45 AM
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Reefaholic
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Carmel, IN
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I'd say artificial. Buying and transporting the water is too large of a burden...
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10/10/2010, 06:50 AM
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Reefer Madness
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Windsor, Ontario
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Artificial, because the contaminants near shore where we would collect the water would be to great.
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10/10/2010, 12:51 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Key Largo, FL
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Depends on where you live and what your options are for getting natural sea water. I live in the florida keys and often run out to the reefs to get water, its far far better then any of that bagged salt and my tank always pops after a nice water change with the fresh reef water.
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10/10/2010, 01:03 PM
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Agree, depends where you live.
We have access to free filtered seawater off a pier used by a public aquarium, just hose fill barrels in your truck. Though that needs to be adjusted slightly for reefs w/ buffer and bump salinity.
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10/10/2010, 05:16 PM
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Reefaholic
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Carmel, IN
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All it takes is once and you have contaminated water and nuke the reef. I'd rather trust the bucket of salt and sounds like a lot of work moving all that water
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10/10/2010, 05:25 PM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Staten Island
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No choice for me here in NYC as our local waters are a "hot spot" for parasites and unless your one of the big local public aquariums it's just not worth the trouble. I just use IO salt and dose to get the numbers I want.
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