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While I am far from an expert on the subject of storing salt water,
I have to say your about the only one that has taken the view of no aeration being needed. From all the LFS and the multitudes of reef and fish keepers on all the web based forums, they all seem to agree it does need aeration..Just let a bucket of salt water set even if covered, and in a short time it starts to smell pretty rank and stale. Not that I dissagree as everyone has their own acceptable methods and proceedures, but just thought I would point this out. On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:46:15 GMT, Wayne Sallee wrote: When storing water for a long time it does not need to be kept circulated, or airated. Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Roy wrote on 1/9/2006 6:57 PM: For a long long time.....However natural sewater you get from the ocean will have a lot of undesirebale stuff in it which may create more problems later on. As posted make sure it does not have any polutants in it..pretty hard to verify that, and of course any organic material will start decomposing. If you decide to do it, I would keep it as cool as possible, in a dark container out of sunlight, and keep it aerated with a powerhead. Unless you use a large airstone they are not too effective or not as effective as usuing a powerhead to keep it agitated and aerated.....To be honest there is not a lot of foks in any of the forums I visit that thinks usuing naturally collected seawater to be a good thing mainly due to polutants and other undesireables like algae etc. On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:51:57 +1000, miskairal mehiding@Oz wrote: If I were to go to a beach and get salt water, how long could I store it for and how should it be stored? I can probably get around 800 litres in one trip (2 1/2 hours each way) but the water would then be in 200 litre (44gallon) drums with only a small opening in the top. It's really not practical to go that far for just one drum of water and hubby's ute is not comfy and airconditioned and it's summer here. Would the water go off? -- \\\|/// ( @ @ ) -----------oOOo(_)oOOo--------------- oooO ---------( )----Oooo---------------- \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ The original frugal ponder! Koi-ahoi mates.... |
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