What if were this easy?

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haff

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Greeting to all from Sunny Southwest Florida. I feel lucky to have found this site prior to my first SW setup. There was a poster on here who only posted once. Residing in Florida, he claimed to be able to set-up his 35 gal tank in 72 hours using only Ocean water and live sand.

Exerpt from His thread:

filled the tank 60% fresh ocean salt water $0.50 a gallon its cheep enough we don’t mix salt here or I can drive 10 miles to the beach and get it free.

Added 20 LB live sand (no bed rock or crushed rock) I was told not necessary.

added 20 Lb live rock and toped off the tank with water had to add 3 gallons of bottle water to get the salinity down to 1.023.

Ran the filter for 12 hours before I added 4 Damsels to start my tank cycling, by the way the water was mostly clear in 4 hours and very clear in 24 hours. Tested water before Damsel was added. Test results PH 8.0 Nitrites 0 Nitrates 0 Ammonia

He only posted once and was never heard from again. I'm thinking maybe nitrates got him, lol.

I'm not looking for a shortcut here; but, I love the idea of saving time using a natural resource I obvoulsy have in ready supply.

Would anyone care to support/debunk this method?
 
haff said:
Ran the filter for 12 hours before I added 4 Damsels to start my tank cycling, by the way the water was mostly clear in 4 hours and very clear in 24 hours. Tested water before Damsel was added. Test results PH 8.0 Nitrites 0 Nitrates 0 Ammonia
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For starters, I do not have any SW tanks. However, he claims that the levels are at zero. I think that's natural since his tank just hasn't cycled yet. I would have liked to see his values +72 hrs after adding the fish.
I am very sceptical with regard to shortcuts.
 
Using saltwater from the ocean introduces pollution and possible infections/infestations into your tank. If I was buying ~$50 fish, I would definetly not be scooping crap from nature and dumping it in the tank with them.
 
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