Water?

[iration]

Have any of you seen an advantage to making your own saltwater? I'm asking because I live in San Diego and can easily obtain sea water for free from Scripps. If this is not advised and I should just make my own please let me know. Thanks.

 

[Anonymous]

http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=87877

 

[Anonymous]

I would not use NSW I collected unless it was well filtered. I would run it through carbon, a UV, and skimm the mess out of it just for starters.

 

[bjoiner]

My friend who introduced me to reef keeping has been using water from Scripps for as long as he can remember. I don't know where they get the water, but I'm sure it's perfectly safe. (I mean, it's Scripps after all)

I live in Pasadena, so I'm a little far to be going down to SD that often. The one advantage I see to mixing my own water is that I have a little more controll over the parameters.

But on the other hand, Scripps is free!

HTH, Ben

 

[Meloco14]

If Scripps uses this water in their own tanks then I wouldn't see much of a problem. The only thing I can think of is maybe some kind of contaminant that doesn't affect local fish but could affect your fish from more tropical locations. But if you run the water through UV you'd kill most of it off. I would ask the advice of someone at Scripps, I'm sure most of them know more about it than a lot of us :wink: .