[v4reef]

Been looking into this. Here are some links.

http://www.mysound.uconn.edu

http://www.longislandsoundstudy.net/

I just searched RC, and there is indeed a thread with good results from folks in LI (including sources and directions).

[ May 03, 2005, 11:22 AM: Message edited by: v4reef ]

[fishome25]

the water is safe to use and I've used it many times. no treatement needed.

[charliethetuna88]

i wouldnt use it for my tank but jones is pretty clean guys in the summer i have caugth a number of nice fish that you wounnt expect to see in water like that for example ive gottin triggerfish there puffers and once the weird silzer puffer with big eyes seahorses which we all know are very delicate monk fish ,pipe fish,ive seen seals in winter and gaint sunfish,also seaturtles i gota a boat and im always on the water so i see things alot

[marrone]

The problem with using the water is it may have small amount of bad things in it which in the ocean don't get into a large enough concentrate because of the water volume. In a close system, like our tanks, it will build up over time and could be fatal. That being said there are a # of people who do use it.

I to have seen sea turtle and all kinds of saltwater fish, specially at the end of the summer when they get blow up here on the warm water jet stream. There is also a reef outside of the Rockaways,Manahattan Reef acutally, that does pretty well. So the water can't be that bad.

[glipper69]

every here of Mercury, just about every top predator in the ocean is polluted with it. They get that way because they eat the small fish like ours. There are studies that show even the most pristine waters like in the arctic are loaded with mercury and tons of chemicals do to runoff etc...

I think if you used it every once and a while it would probably be fine, but all the time, bad things may start happening.

Frank

[alrha]

cool, i didnt know we had a reef off the rockaways.
why would it build up in the tank more than in the ocean. you are replacing your tank water with ocean water, so the concentration should remain the same.

i still wouldnt do it due to too many variables.

[v4reef]

One would have to top up with fresh water to account for evaporation before changing with ocean water in order to avoid the concentration effect over time.