**FREE** Saltwater in Santa Barbara and San Diego

[reefman23]

For any of you who live in SB/SD... free saltwater... probably the best stuff money could buy... but its free!

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showt ... did=541355

Jesse

 

[reefman23]

ANybody live close enough to one of these spigots to take advantage of them?? Hey, free high quality NSW is always a good thing!

Jesse

 

[djconn]

My buddy Phischy lives in SD and he does get SW from Scripps. He said you have to add some Ca I think though. Pretty cool IMO.

 

[Phischy]

Yup in SD we can go grab SCRIPPS salt water for free:

http://www.sdreefs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11201

This is a sticked workup thread on how to get it what to do etc... YOu need to let it age for 24hrs to 48hrs to allow for dieoff. You should not use the water after a rain to avoid contaminents rushing from the surface to the ocean and you should avoid it during Red Tide.

The water is lacking in calcium and magnesium so you do need to add traces to your water before changing. Basically all the guys out here with big tanks use ocean water, you just have to haul it yourself! Plus all of the fish stores here use that water in their tanks...hard to argue with free!

 

[FishBone]

Phischy,
Link doesn't work for me.

 

[reefman23]

from what I have heard, the water from UCSB is safe to use even during red tide and storms. They must have different filtration or something.

Jesse