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Old 10-27-2009, 09:48 PM
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I gave it the 'ol college try! :P You know, I was wondering the other day, for those people who live on the coast, have you thought about using ocean water for your water changes? Just get a bucket of ocean water, heat it up to tropical temps, dump it into your tank. What could go wrong?? :-)
LOL, yeah I tried that. You have to get it really deep. With all the seagoing traffic around here theres lots of "extras" in the water, not to mention all the nutrients. At one point I was using pasteurized seawater filtered to 1 micron and it grew the most lush green hair algae ever!
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