buy saltwater or mix at home

[deejeff442]

just curious ,what everyone uses for thier water mix at home or buy redimixed?

 

[coral keeper]

I make my own saltwater.

 

[rebelprettyboy]

watevers more convienent. Id make my own though

 

[deejeff442]

what brand do you prefer

 

[stanlalee]

mix at home. Get a Reverse Osmosis water treatment unit and be done with it (many have/add a deionizer D.I. as well but mine is just a regular 4 tube R.O. unit). water changes are never going to go away and having to go out to buy water gets old REAL fast (the larger the tank the faster its going to get old).

 

[jeanheckle]

I make my own with an RO unit and reef crystals. I mix 15 gallons at a time.

 

[jonp]

I make my own. A ro/di unit will pay for itself once you add up gas, time, price of jugs, buying new things from going to the store (well they may be just me

), etc. Plus you always have it on hand just incase anything happens.

 

[spinylobster]

i tend to like natural seawater

 

[murph145]

make my own... used to buy natural sea water from catalina but with my larger tank just got too expensive to do a 30G water change every 3 weeks so switched to makin my own

 

[coral keeper]

I normally use natural ocean water, but when I run out of natural ocean water I make my own water.(I collect natural ocean water myself.

)

 

[1knight164]

Natural sea water user here. When I went overseas, my wife bought from the LFS and my tank went haywire. Returned home and went back to natural and the tank is doing great.

 

[deejeff442]

yea i have had 6 five gallon jugs in the back seat of my truck for a month now can't seem to get to the fish store.only problem i have is where do i put the container to make the saltwater.i grew up in buffalo and always had a basement.now live in fort worth and only slabs here.

 

[spanko]

Nutrisea Natural Seawater here for my 29 biocube.

 

[dragonboy]

I use Natural Seawater before but it was too far just to drive if you add up the gas its about the same if you mix it at home.

 

[socal57che]

Filtered seawater from Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Free.

 

[deejeff442]

i am confused when you guys say natural seawater you mean you get it out of the ocean or is that a name brand?

 

[1knight164]

Originally Posted by socal57che
http:///forum/post/2760327
Filtered seawater from Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Free.
+1

I was going to ask you if you went there!

 

[socal57che]

Originally Posted by 1knight164
http:///forum/post/2760597
+1

I was going to ask you if you went there!
The guys with lots of stony coral supplement it, but I (along with many others) do not. There is a sticky on the sdreefs furum about using Scripps water. I was a little skittish until I met Mike Moore and saw his results. Been using it ever since.

 

[1knight164]

Originally Posted by socal57che
http:///forum/post/2760633
The guys with lots of stony coral supplement it, but I (along with many others) do not. There is a sticky on the sdreefs furum about using Scripps water. I was a little skittish until I met Dave Morris and saw his results. Been using it ever since.
Thanks for the tip. Haven't finished reading all 17 pages of the thread, but go the gist of it. I've been using it since day 1 (except as I mentioned in my post) and have had no problems at all. I don't supplement either.

 

[b0b82]

Ocean water and ro for top off.