Sea Water

[dutoits]

I live 100m from the beach and i could easely get sea water to maintain the correct water balance, our temp is round 16/19 degrees what type of fish can i keep

 

[GSD]

i wouldnt use sea water!!!!!!it is full of dirt,deasize,bacteria and chemicals even if it looks clean it might now be,just go and but some sea salt mixture stuff from the LFS its much safer

 

[andywg]

I would recommend getting the water professionally tested. There are risks with using natural water (disease, parasites) but there are benefits (priuce being a huge one).

If it is a beach the SG is likely to be a bit higher and you would be looking at full marine, but as I said, testing will tell you for sure.

Using natural water is often not a great idea, but can be done. Navarre's old tank (don't know about the new one) was a very successful reef tank using water from the british coast.

 

[jflowers]

Using natural water is often not a great idea, but can be done. Navarre's old tank (don't know about the new one) was a very successful reef tank using water from the british coast.

I was gonna mention Navarre, praps we can get him to comment? Navarre?

Jon

 

[andywg]

I asked a question similar to this one here