watsixseven
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If you have a truck or SUV, you could buy a 100 gallons PCO water tank from http://www.plastic-mart.com/class.php?item=39:spin3:
UCSB Santa Barbara NSW Natural Sea Water...
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Sisterlimonpot
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No, I haven't been successful in reaching the guy.
However, through all my phone calls I was able to get 200 gallons from a place in Santa Barbara. It was on a pier at a sea center, (the name has eluded me at the moment). I'm not too sure if they are willing to have everyone knocking on their door. I will have to contact them and find out. However, Christoph Pierre at (805) 893-2873 seemed to be willing (if all else failed) to let me in the university and retrieve the water from the lab, he made it sound like he had to do some secret squirrel stuff but was willing to help. Crusty Old Shellback I would start with him and see where that takes you.
Sisterlimonpot
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it is called the "Ty Warner Sea Center"
it is called the "Ty Warner Sea Center"
watsixseven, you still need a way to fill it up. And you can't drive your truck out to the end of the pier to collect it. Plus you ned a converter from DC to AC to run a pump. That and you need a pump that can push a high head to get it up into the truck even if you could drive out to the end of the pier. You wouldn't want to collect it right at the shore, too much junk in it. Kind of like the collection cup on your skimmer.
Sisterlimonpot, thanks for the update. As for the ty warner on the pier, I don't think they filter their water any. Been a while since I was last in there. After mixing up 500 G of water, the monster is now up and running once again. Shure would have been easier if UCSB was open.
Sisterlimonpot, thanks for the update. As for the ty warner on the pier, I don't think they filter their water any. Been a while since I was last in there. After mixing up 500 G of water, the monster is now up and running once again. Shure would have been easier if UCSB was open.
Sisterlimonpot
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they said they do a sand filtration, and recommended a uv filtration before adding it. But yeah you're right, they don't do the same as UCSB. I'm gonna try again today to contact the guy, and see if I can talk to an actual person.
Hopefully more to come.
Hopefully more to come.
Sisterlimonpot
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they said they do a sand filtration, and recommended a uv filtration before adding it. But yeah you're right, they don't do the same as UCSB. I'm gonna try again today to contact the guy, and see if I can talk to an actual person.
Hopefully more to come.
Hopefully more to come.
watsixseven
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How far do you have to be away from shore? I guess you need to have a boat then. I would test the water first before I collect it anyway.:spin3:
Sisterlimonpot
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IIRC, UCSB pulls it from 200 yards off shore and from the bottom of the ocean. Not to mention they filter at well. If you can get out at least a mile and put your hose as deep as you can, you should be alright. The water that I got from Ty Warner seems to be fine, I have a few fish in there already and they took right to it.
Sisterlimonpot
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Alright, bad news, I just got off the phone with Ray Aronson the Project Manager for UCSB OCTOS Building. And he said that it won't be until November of 2011 before that spigot is back on line.
watsixseven
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Sisterlimonpot,
How far do you live from UCSB?
How far do you live from UCSB?
Sisterlimonpot
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About an hour away. If I catch the Santa Barbara traffic you can tack on another 45 minutes though.
watsixseven
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Wow, that is pretty far. My brother's tanks are in Port Hueneme and it probably takes even longer to get to UCSB. There used to be a aquarium warehouse close by but they went out of business. We used to get free NSW from them.
yea, I remember the one in port Who needs me. Nice couple who ran it. I didn't know they would let you get water though. Been there several times trading frags and buying fish. They sold out to some guy from New York who ran the bussiness into the ground and then closed up. Everything is still there though as far as the buildings go.
They pulled the water in from the mouth of the port but did some heavy filtering if I remember correctly.
As for UCSB, I remember them saying it's more like a 1/2 mile out, not 200 yards, to their inlet pipe. maybe I'm wrong. But it is out in the open and not at the mouth of a port or cove.
All in all it was like a 3 hour round trip for me on early saturday mornings to hit up UCSB and get about 250G of water. I hope they can figure out a temporary fix for us until they can get the spigot back on line.
They pulled the water in from the mouth of the port but did some heavy filtering if I remember correctly.
As for UCSB, I remember them saying it's more like a 1/2 mile out, not 200 yards, to their inlet pipe. maybe I'm wrong. But it is out in the open and not at the mouth of a port or cove.
All in all it was like a 3 hour round trip for me on early saturday mornings to hit up UCSB and get about 250G of water. I hope they can figure out a temporary fix for us until they can get the spigot back on line.
Sisterlimonpot
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yep I was way off, it was 2500 feet off shore and 50 feet down. I actually live in oxnard now (right next to port hueneme). I would have had to tack on another 20 minutes from thousand oaks.
watsixseven, where do you live?
watsixseven, where do you live?
watsixseven
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I live in Newhall but my brother who has 2 saltwater tanks is in Port Hueneme.
I'm in Oxnard, near the airport. I work over on the base at Hueneme.
watsixseven
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What is the different between table salt and aquarium salt?
Table salt is just that salt, some with idoine, nothing else.
Aquarium salt is a whole lot of different salts, other chemicals along with about 150 trace elements in ASW and even more in NSW.
Big difference between them.
Aquarium salt is a whole lot of different salts, other chemicals along with about 150 trace elements in ASW and even more in NSW.
Big difference between them.
watsixseven
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Thanks for the info, Crusty old shellback. So If I dry NSW to get the salt, it should be better than Artificial salt. Does that make any sense?
Not sure what you are trying to accomplish.
Salt is Sodium Chloride.
Sea Salt has a whole lot more stuff. But I'm not sure what may be lost by drying it out. I do know that there are places where ocean salt is dried out and sold/used as cooking salt.
But I don't think you can use sea salt that you buy in the grocery store for making ASW or NSW.
salt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt
sea water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_salt
Salt is Sodium Chloride.
Sea Salt has a whole lot more stuff. But I'm not sure what may be lost by drying it out. I do know that there are places where ocean salt is dried out and sold/used as cooking salt.
But I don't think you can use sea salt that you buy in the grocery store for making ASW or NSW.
salt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt
sea water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_salt
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