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filtering ocean water???
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No insult but I saw this and had to reply, No, this is not a good idea for a reef tank!!
If you look back in the threads, this subject has been discussed in detail. The concept of Filtering the water should be explored.
Back in the early ninety's my dad and I were running a lobster boat out of Barneget inlet. I had a 150 gallon chilled lobster tank set up in my garage which I would keep our lobsters to be sold. Also inside I had a 125 running "old style" under gravel filter,with power heads. I supplied both tanks with fresh ocean water,from ten to twenty miles off shore which I would pump into five gallon jugs to cart home. Both tanks thrived and did amazingly well. The sea life I had on my inside tank was incredible, with polyps, feather dusters, pods and such. Corals were not as available as they are today. Of course children came along and things changed. I have to admit I have not been to "The Beach" in a number of years, because I refuse to watch the trash that comes down from the north and destroys our resources. Perhaps the garbage they leave behind has polluted our inlets as in has our shores.
However if you read up on Paul B threads he has been running a tank with UGF and suppling in with water and such from the Long Island Sound for forty years. With every example there are success and horror stories. Start reading up on what all this "sun block" people apply is doing to our reefs and oceans.
However if you read up on Paul B threads he has been running a tank with UGF and suppling in with water and such from the Long Island Sound for forty years. With every example there are success and horror stories. Start reading up on what all this "sun block" people apply is doing to our reefs and oceans.
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Paul B
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As was aaid here somewhere, I have been using it for forty years, so far no problems. I filter it through a coffe filter to remove plankton and jellyfish but it is not really necesary. All of your animals came from NSW, none of them came from ASW so it should be no surprise. And if you ever visited some of the places where these things are collected, our water in the northeast starts to look good.
You just need a little common sence as to where to collect, like not off Statin Island next to the garbage dump or anywhere where a river feeds into it.
Any sandy ocean beach where people normally swim that is away from enclosed bays and rivers should be fine, even right near shore which is where I collect it.
You just need a little common sence as to where to collect, like not off Statin Island next to the garbage dump or anywhere where a river feeds into it.
Any sandy ocean beach where people normally swim that is away from enclosed bays and rivers should be fine, even right near shore which is where I collect it.
