Thank god i dont have that problem, I get my saltwater straight out of the OCEAN. I love the beach and that is where our hobby started from, i try to keep it as natural as i can. Hope everything lives bro LOL
buying saltwater instead of making it myself
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Well I finally have been taught a lesson. I never thought I would be under this forum heading because it takes a lot to make me upset but nonetheless here i am mad as hell. Went to the LFS to buy saltwater because i was taking everything out of my 125 and cleaning rearranging rocks. I purchased a shit load of saltwater, (so I thought) was making changes probably a total of 100 gallons because i have 125 & 75 hooked up together. Thank God I had to go back to the LFS because I was informed that he sold me RO water no salt. MISTAKE----> I was not happy but to tell you the truth the Italian,French and German mix that I am knew I better not say a word because I would say things that no Lady should say. lol
I came running home mixed some salt, tested the water, .19 so mixing I did indeed to get it up to .24-25... I think I prevented a disaster because everything looks ok and seems to be ok, I probably wont know for a bit but I called them after the shock and told my buddy that he better teach that young man what the hell he is doing or I would come there and give him education myself. I can smile now but there for an hour I was pretty scared. Thank GOD they told me or I would have some major trouble.
Okay I feel better.lol
When i did buy saltwater i allways checked the saltinity before adding to be sure its the same or as close as you can get it
yes indeed I will be checking the saltinity from this point forward. I wish I was on the beach but all I have is the bay all around me, that water is crappy. There is the gulf side though, its an idea but I would have no idea how to truck the water from A-Z. How do you manage that?
2 five gallon buckets at a time there is a spot where i can park around 75 ft. from water,great exercise its a win win situation for me and my tanks
First off, Hope all you live stock survive. good luck.
Secondly.for moving the water from a-z. somthing i saw back home in Guyana visiting my Aunt who live up in the river and the only access is by boat. this is what they do to get water from the river up to the house with out fetching it. they take 3/4HP water pump and hoo it up to a 3/4" hose (one end container the other in river) and power the pump offf a truck batter and a dc to ac converter and within one hour they can fill ~2-3 55 gallon drums. may be this is some thin you can try, i am deffinitly gonna do this as soom as i can fnd a suitable sopt near the ocean where the water is cleaner.
I have a pump and motor that i use. Its got 2 1/2in piping. It works awesome. Back up the truck to the inlet (3 hrs. before high tide) and just pump it into all our bins. We normally get about 100-150 gals at a time.
i used to buy saltwater before i got my RO unit to mix it myself. almost had an issue much like that, but mine was that the salinity was OFF THE CHARTS! thankfully i always checked the water before i used it so i knew if i needed to do anything to fix it...thank god i finally got an RO unit...now i don't have to deal with that crap. glad you found out the problem before you had MAJOR problems! i would have given that guy a piece of my irish/polish/german/cuban mind! lol! way to hold your tongue! i wouldn't have been able to! lol!
Me either i wound crawled all over that dude and if anything got ruin boy hed have alot of problems
no ro/di =
