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Post by Rakahrd Eastbrook, Me. on Jul 6, 2015 9:13:18 GMT -5
I live in Rockland and am surounded by sea water is there any harm or benifits in using this in my reef tank ?
I dont have a R/o system and my tap water is not good it makes too much algea in the system.
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Post by jasonbowdoin on Jul 6, 2015 10:27:21 GMT -5
You can but you really need get the water off shore. From everything I read online any water you will get off the rocks is to polluted for our tanks. But maybe others on here have had good luck with it
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Post by jasonandsarah on Jul 6, 2015 11:35:01 GMT -5
You can put together a good Ro/Di unit for cheap and it's much easier and safer imo then natural seawater. Like already stated you have to get it way off shore and by the time you get done lugging in water every week/month you've paid for an Ro/Di in gas money.
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Post by jasonbowdoin on Jul 6, 2015 13:15:34 GMT -5
And anything offshore 10 miles you can dump paper 25 miles plastic that don't float . Needless to say maine waters are a big dumping zone for fishing vessels
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Post by Sean (90 reef, fw rack sys) on Jul 7, 2015 16:16:33 GMT -5
I experimented with this about, 6 months ago. I had a blue damsel and a coral banded shrimp from my old setup that I didn't want in the new. Put them in a 15 gallon with water collected from under the Stonington bridge (fast moving). All basic parameters were the same as tank water. Fish is still doing great but the shrimp was dead within a few day. I didn't try coral. My personal opinion is either stick with salt mix and ro/di water (most Hannaford stores have a machine, but who knows how often they are serviced) or buy the premix at lps. I think you'll fi nd out on the long run that you're better off
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Post by Rakahrd Eastbrook, Me. on Jul 8, 2015 6:18:04 GMT -5
how do I build a R/o unit?
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