For People Who Think Tap Water Is Fine For A Reef Tank

[duke62]

i clean my filter sock every other day.usually i take it out hose it down with HOT water soak it for an hour then rinse with HOT water again and soak it for 5 min in ro/di.well today i got lazy and skipped that last step and ran it under cold water and rinsed then put it back on my drain.in 5 minutes my anemone and a couple of corals all closed up.they are starting to come back out but that is how sensitive they are to tap water.there wasnt alot of tap water on that filter sock i squeezed out as much warter as i possibly could....

 

[georgelc86]

Duke what did you soak it in.

 

[duke62]

Tap Water.that is the purpose of this thread.my anemone and corals are fine its the point of there reaction towards the tap water

 

[nanoreefer22]

I doubt it J. Probably something else, sometimes my anemone just closes up to expel waste after a heavy feeding and comes right back out.

 

[georgelc86]

I was thinking you soaked in a chlorine solution. Anyway, tap is amazing huh? I just got my new toy today from one of the members. 5 stage 75GPD.

 

[duke62]

then that is some coincedence.everything was out and happy,i put the filter sock back in and they all close up.

 

[e.muehlbauer]

Where on LI are you? At my summer place in Cutchogue, the tap water is well water....acidic, overly high in manganese, and tastes like crap, makes undrinkable coffee, and ice cubes that smell like garlic. At least I don't have the pesticide traces and nitrates that some others have.....

 

[duke62]

oooh summer place in cutchogue...i smell a friend that will let me hunt in his yard :lol2: no im in lindenhurst.

 

[tosiek]

There wouldn;t be enough tap to cause that reaction from the filter sock. Plus, there shouldn;t be enough of any bad stuff typically found in tap in that much of filter sock wetness to even affect a 30g or similar tank.

Something else caused the reaction. Your missing something. People set up complete SW reef tanks with tap, everything is healthy except massive amounts of algae from all the extra crap that wasn;t filtered out.

 

[e.muehlbauer]

Hey, I would let you hunt...but I think the density of houses is too great in my neighborhood...houses on both sides and in the back, creek across the street. We do get some deer in my immediate area, but not as many as you find north of Rte 440.