Petco "Real Ocean Water" Packaged Saltwater...Anyone test TDS?

[toothybugs]

Again, buy one and test it. If putting a bunch of them together, say to make a 30 gallon barrel, fill it and test the combined batch, and adjust if necessary.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

You don't have to get so testy, all I did was bring it up that it's a 6 year old thread. More than likely you will not get any answers from those people. From the way your post is written it sounds like you were asking them for the parameters for Alk,Mg and Ca.

You can find out in one of two ways. First as toothybugs said buy some and test it, or simply go to their website and find out the analysis of it from their website. And if there isn't any listing of the parameters then it's back to option one and buy some to test it yourself.

I took a few minutes and did a little searching and found the following.

Catalina Water delivery is the company that packages the Natural Sea water for Petco.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2420109

Soo I just tested my Catalina water for Calcium and Magnesium.

Magnesium-1260 with Salifert test (in past it's been right around 1300)
Calcium- 410

The driver that delivers water to me said they go to long beach aquarium a few times a week with water deliveries. I did hear that too that they now take water from the local harbor vrs out at Catalina.

I've been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out some coral browning in my coral grow and a few clients tanks... I found iodide to be almost traceless in tanks that are doing bad,...... and Catalina water itself is almost traceless of iodide with my Salifert test... I've used Catalina water for about a year now and it seemed to give amazing results,...But something has been off the past couple months and I'm not too sure what else it could be
Several aquariums I use 0 TDS water with tropic marin salt & they are rocking... Only Tanks where I use Catalina water are sad now.

I then found this that shows the analysis of the Catalina Water by Advanced Aquarist.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/9/aafeature

 

[higgs83]

I've never been to the Chicagoland area of Iowa...necrobumping is how we locals roll.

 

[ct_vol]

It typically amuses me when ancient threads are revived. This one no less so.