Its an everyday thing. That picture is being passed around on facebook saying its pollution. Its not, its just brackish tannin water.
Every South Florida inlet is like this.
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Its an everyday thing. That picture is being passed around on facebook saying its pollution. Its not, its just brackish tannin water.
Every South Florida inlet is like this.
mrx66699
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I get 1500gal delivered and my setup has never looked cleaner......anyone that has seen my setup can vouch the sand is the whitest you have ever seen and the rocks are same.....now is this totaly due to the clean up crews, all the wrasses, and large filtration,......Im sure some is but until I switched to NSW it just seemed like a never ending battle with the hair algae .....now the system is relatively new......... coming up on a little over a year and a half and I do have a ton of fish so it could be just coming into its own and with the changes I have made plus the maturity it could be a lot of coincidence but it has to say something for it as it didnt take but a month after I changed and it was gone ....
With an incoming tide you can see a distinct line between the clean ocean water and the murky bay water...inside the bay. At Haulover, that line typically forms somewhat west of the ICW, leaving the water around the sandbar and the inlet side of Beer Can Island nice and clean looking. As mentioned before, incoming tide is key, the closer to high tide the better. It's also good to avoid collecting NSW when there has been large amounts of rain.
treetopflyn
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120reefermadnes
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+1 i have been using unfiltered NSW and nothing else since day one which was about '09 and have had amazing success with sps (mostly acros is what i have kept but the first year into the hobby i kept mostly lps and softys and had great succes as well with those)
I 100% beleive in NSW i mean i cant disaggree about filtering the NSW before introducing it into your tank but i never have and have never had an issue and i beleive that there are alot of good micro organisms that you just cant get from boxed salts that would bd killed by u.v. but maybe a filter sock or similar might not be a bad idea because that would most pests that could possably be in NSW , but again IMO. Alot of the bad coral eating bugs and other bad things people are afraid of are not in the water colom , now again i have no evidence to back this up so i dont in any way claim my statements as facts.
120reefermadnes
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O and you must be either out off shore in a boat(i have never tried this but friends of mine have with great success) or in an inlet very close to the ocean, i usualy go an hour to an hour and a half before high tide so you can see the strong current rushing in from the ocean. You dont want to collect on out going tide or slack tide, or when the water looks real murky or shortly after a major rain storm because of run off, again IMO i have no facts to back any of this up just my thoughts and expieriances
120reefermadnes
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South florida is very close to the gulf stream also wich provides us with very clean water u would think right?
lipskimike
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Most of the LFS use natural inlet water. If their tanks look the way they do and they keep every coral, fish and invert alive using the water then I have no problems using it. Simple. PS- The water MRX is using is the same as me and most of the fish stores. The same guy filled up all of the tanks at the FMAS frag swap. The NSW is great.
Paul B
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I have been using NSW all of my life, right from the beach, like 2' deep.
My reef is 42 years old. Virtually all the paired fish are spawning, even the 20 year olds, and there are LPS and SPS all over the place. All of your animals came from NSW, none of them came from fake water. Most people use fake water either because they don't know better, they listen to the rumors that is somehow bad, or they live inland. Everyone who does not use NSW and has an older tank, raise your hand..... Higher. :smokin:
My reef is 42 years old. Virtually all the paired fish are spawning, even the 20 year olds, and there are LPS and SPS all over the place. All of your animals came from NSW, none of them came from fake water. Most people use fake water either because they don't know better, they listen to the rumors that is somehow bad, or they live inland. Everyone who does not use NSW and has an older tank, raise your hand..... Higher. :smokin:
Saw some nice A. cervicornis growing on the reefs just outside of Haulover while diving yesterday. Also Montastrea, a nice large Diploria about a meter across, plenty of gorgonians, a half dozen Pederson's Cleaner shrimp, etc., etc. Seems to me the local ocean that comes into Haulover Inlet at high tide is doing a great job of growing reef life 
Only problem, I was diving with little sample bottles for sponge and algae samples. So I didn't have my collecting gear with me. So I couldn't snag those shrimp.
Only problem, I was diving with little sample bottles for sponge and algae samples. So I didn't have my collecting gear with me. So I couldn't snag those shrimp.
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