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I am only a little way from Alan, and will offer my help too. I am off at noon tomorrow and Friday, but gone by Friday evening. If housing of critters is needed, I can house fishes in my refugium, and nano. Both are to small for yellow Tangs though, as he would soon go nuts.
Actually if the need arises I could turn my 33 back into salt for awhile, and put the critters in there. Then Alan could take care of them while I am on three weeks vacation. :D if someone could babysit my eight FW fish.
Bob

[ 17 July 2002, 17:41: Message edited by: Bob Ipema ]

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[ 17 July 2002, 17:09: Message edited by: Superfudge ]

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I can't believe people would use tap water, but to each his own. On the ocassions I have had to add even topoff tap water, I get instant algae.

Not to mention, I can't even drink our tap water lately, it tastes so bad.

Anyway, Alan, Mitch dropped off his UV here for you if you decide you want it.

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That of course could start a flame of its own Deb, so we had better not get into that. But with the City's filtration problem even our highly vaunted water could be marginal at this time.
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Alan, you can have however much RO/DI water you would like from my unit that it takes to help solve this problem.

Mitch [img]smile.gif[/img]

(I love to see all the passion from the reefkeepers here!)

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hmm I notice that Calgary has two different treatment plants.. Alan are you on the same plant as Bob and the others?

from the water quality report I see that one plant is higher in calcium as the other.

Bearspaw Treatment Plant Water Hardness (CaCO3) for 2000
mg/L Average 154.5


Glenmore Treatment Plant Water Hardness (CaCO3) for 2000
mg/L Average 212.5

here is the water quality results for Calgary.. the floride is a concern, I wasn't aware alberta was still adding it to the water.. oh well I still don't have cavities :D

http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca/cww/wat...ges/table.html

sence the water report only shows a very few tests that have been done I would suspect that other non tested contamanants "ie. Phosphates, sulfates, sulfites, ect.." could be present. especialy when everything I read about back home is saying how this year is one of the worst years for water ever.

Steve

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ditto, Alan. I change 40g every two weeks in the 155g so I have lots of that (I've probably run more onto the laundry room floor than you need anyway.... :D ) Also you are welcome to use the tubs, powerheads, python, etc.

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Alan, when I suggested removing the rock way back on page one, I meant move to large rubbermaid containers with water and heaters and stuff. This would keep everything alive in/on your rock. That would allow you to confirm or eliminate the rock as the source of the problem.

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Alan here's the link to the RC post I was talking about. Most of the responses say UV cleared up the problem very fast.

http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulletin...threadid=99878

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Calgary voted that in only about 10 years ago. Wait, maybe a little more now. It was 1989, or 1990. It was a very small margin, but, apparently, this is what people want.

Not a topic to really make me very happy, though. I can add fluoride to my water myself if I choose. I can't remove it that easily. Oh no wait, I can, I have an RO unit now ... :D Never mind..

BUT ... why does this thread have to degenerate into a tap vs RO debate? It's neither here nor there. I would prefer to see the thread closed, than to sift through another page of heated tempers over something trivial and irrelevant to the original intent of me moving this thread into the main forum. Yes, Alan should switch to RO for now. I think he gets the point... I sure do.