Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board - Doing super frequent water changes.. what can go wrong?

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Originally Posted by Delphinus (Post 458545)

The public aquariums do it.. :mrgreen: but yeah, the collection points are way out there.

Down in the L.A. area I noticed the LFS's were selling a product called "Catalina water." Same idea, just huge vats of it so you could buy 40 gallons at a time if you wanted. They take a boat out towards Catalina Island, suck up huge amounts of water, take it back to the LFS's for selling. I never really understood what the benefit was though, for the cost of salt compared to the cost of anything else for the hobby, it seems like a lot of work. (This was ten years ago though that I was down there, maybe they don't do it any longer.)

When I was in Vancouver Aquarium the guy who maintains the reef tank was trying to convince me that they import the water for that tank directly from the red sea, not just the salt but the actual water. He also said it was the most expensive tank to maintain including the dolphin and whale tanks. I didn't really buy any of that though, but I guess you never know.