Anyone ever tested Jones beach water?
- Thread starter Reef Guy
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every now and then i consider using NSW for my tank, but then quickly realize that there is a big chance of doing more harm than good. using a salt mix, you can sleep knowing that you are not introducing anything that can wipe out your tank. getting a bucket of water from the beach, however, you never know if you are going to end up introducing some parasite or something else.
i'd stick to a salt mix.
i'd stick to a salt mix.
I would not want to use jones beach water for my tank, unless you could filter it someway. I think using RO/DI and saltmix is much safer. Like albert said who knows what you might introduce in your tank. Plus there's all the pollutant's that are in our area. Remember all that hospital waste that keeps washing up on shore each year? It would be great if we had a clean source of NSW we knew was safe. Given that we live on the WATER, you think it would be easy.
If anyone knows of any tricks to make our local SW safe I'd love to hear them.
If anyone knows of any tricks to make our local SW safe I'd love to hear them.
i wouldnt use jones beach water. there are grabage dumps right on the water, runoff from rain goiing through populated and industrial areas, etc etc...
Even areas with clean water dont take it right off shore just for those reasons they go miles out to collect it
Even areas with clean water dont take it right off shore just for those reasons they go miles out to collect it
Jones beach seems a little too close to the city in my opinion, I have been down there and decided against going in the water myself a couple of times. As well as the city, I would imagine there is a fair bit of run off from the surrounding residential area on the other side ofthe bay which would be fairly nutrient (PO4 especially) rich.
You'd probably be OK if you collected out at Montauk, (as long as it hadnt rained in the last week) and let it sit in a dark container for a few weeks before putting it in the tank.
All up I think its way too much trouble.
You'd probably be OK if you collected out at Montauk, (as long as it hadnt rained in the last week) and let it sit in a dark container for a few weeks before putting it in the tank.
All up I think its way too much trouble.
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- The Big City
A # of people who live in LI do use the water from the ocean but they're further out. If you where to use the water you would need to run it through a micron filter and even then I would run a UV on it and even possible ozone. Chances of introduction algae spores or parasite, not to mention any chemicals that are in the water is to great a risk.
If you do a search on RC you'll find a couple of people that do use it.
If you do a search on RC you'll find a couple of people that do use it.
Orchard beach's water is fine though. Everytime i use it, my fish start doing a funny dance like they are happy, and they breath faster because they are excited. It comes with free jellyfish too!!!! My acroporas all start to slime at the same time(a way of showing they are happy due to the improved water quality.).
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 ]
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 ]
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- lindenhurst,ny
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
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- The Big City
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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