Partial Water Change: Salt Mix or Sea Water?

yazid · 07-30-2002, 08:30 PM

I have been doing partial water changes using Salt Mix for the past year and was wondering why should I use Salt Mix when the Sea is not that far away.

Is there any concern if I fetch Sea Water, run an internal filter in it for a few hours before doing a partial water change on the main tank?

My tank is 150g and doing 10g water change every month?

Please advise.

Spanky · 07-30-2002, 08:48 PM

yazid,

If you're fairly sure that the water you collect is clean enough, go for it.
I use nothing but raw (not filtered) sea water myself. Oh, you'll need to buffer it and check Ca levels.
HTH
Jerel

R1Bill · 07-31-2002, 01:15 AM

Jerel,

Thare have been many tank crashes reported over the years when folks have changed from one salt mix to another. Never heard of a problem changing to natural sea water but I would be EXTREMELY hesitant to change what has been working for me.

Good Luck!

Bill