Natural Sea Water (pics)

[Acanholic]

A friend of mine runs a store here at Guatemala and he is constantly supplying the reef market with freshly collected Natural Sea Water from the deep water región. About 25 miles from the shore. I have been using this and wow! Nitrate 0 phosphate and silicate 0. Low alcalinity about 7.6 degrees. Lots of microscopic coral food I guess. Check this pics out. I did a 40 gallons water change last Night.

 

[Oscaror]

Everything looks so happy!

 

[Acanholic]

Yes! The feeding response is impressive! Never seen this feeders out this way!

 

[Oscaror]

Maybe the water had lots of plankton

 

[Harold Green]

Wish I could get water like that. I live along the texas coast and many years ago I brought home ten gallons of gulf bay water and a few rocks with lettuce algae on it. Poured it into a ten gallon tank and sat it outside under a tree. The water turned pea green and in a month or so there were live barnacles growing all over the glass. It sat outside for six months with only additions of fresh water and I have to admit I wish I could grow barnacles in my reef tank. If you have a way to keep the ocean water and expose it to sun light there's no telling what might settle and grow.

 

[Acanholic]

Maybe the water had lots of plankton

If that is the reason it is microscopic. The water is cyistal clear. I added some kalk before the wc

 

[brandon429]

Idea

I would actually pay for seawater as a bottle doser if it could be harvested and preserved somehow from really productive zones to provide smaller consistent shots of biodiversity

They'd have to freeze or store it somehow I wouldn't want it filtered much, all the aggregates and suspended diversity is the point.

Anyone can buy a bottle of refrig plankton but a jolt of regular nsw with verified plankton counts and bacterial diversity is multiple dosers in one for nano reef aquarists who are landlocked

 

[Acanholic]

Oh yes. He is getting amazing Reefs using that NSW

 

[Jorge Gaitan Gomar]

A friend of mine runs a store here at Guatemala and he is constantly supplying the reef market with freshly collected Natural Sea Water from the deep water región. About 25 miles from the shore. I have been using this and wow! Nitrate 0 phosphate and silicate 0. Low alcalinity about 7.6 degrees. Lots of microscopic coral food I guess. Check this pics out. I did a 40 gallons water change last Night.

Hi I would like to get in touch with your friend from Guatemala. I live in Nicaragua and would like to import some corals.