Newbie question.,, Kind of stupid
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If anything, and you really want to use ocean water, go as far out as you possibly can. Areas around the coasts are not clean. if you're really up for it, just get a boat, and go out a ways to get the water, but like kcress said, you're gonna get a lot of lil friends you might not want growing in your tank
Yeah "little friends" Hadnt really thought of that. Anyway, it was just an idea i had. Thanks for all the input!
I get my ocean water from UCSB, which sounds like a similar setup to kcress if he is getting his water from a college. I haven't had any "critters" or anything like that..
I don't see how critters can make it through 30ft of vertical sand filter, plus all the other filtration. I have been using pacific ocean water for about 6 months now myself and my tank has never looked better.
That doesn't mean I would just go to the end of a wharf and drop a bucket though. From everything I have read, if you want to collect clean ocean water you have to go out to sea several miles and then grab water from at least 100ft under the water for it to be good.. that is if your not filtering it at all.
UCSB Natural Seawater
I don't see how critters can make it through 30ft of vertical sand filter, plus all the other filtration. I have been using pacific ocean water for about 6 months now myself and my tank has never looked better.
That doesn't mean I would just go to the end of a wharf and drop a bucket though. From everything I have read, if you want to collect clean ocean water you have to go out to sea several miles and then grab water from at least 100ft under the water for it to be good.. that is if your not filtering it at all.
UCSB Natural Seawater
you're going to really have to keep up with your WC's with your tank that heavily stocked. i'd only recommend 1 of those clowns and maybe a neon or clown goby at most in a 10 gallon tank.
