im going natural

[organicreefer]

in light of the S15 report,dr rons urchin larvea study etc ect...

there is just no way i can continue slowly poisoning my tank with IO salt.

yesterday-i threw the 44 gallon brute on the back of the truck and bought myself some catalina and did a water change.it was 30 bucks to fill it up-not the cheapest route($.75 a gallon)....., but probably the best.

but i dunno-so far everything seems the same

[tendar]

I would love to go natural but not to many oceans here in arizona and dont feel like driving to your place for some. Did pick up some crystal sea today though so will start tring that till some has natural here.

[FISHme]

I was thinking bout doin the same thing.
I used to get my own water from the local inlet years ago .It wasn't to bad then because I only had a 50 gal FO tank . I live on the second floor so if I do it now it would require me to haul 40 gal a month upstairs.
My boss and I just set up a FOWLR in our office. He has a boat and went out to the Gulf stream and got the water .
I had no problem using the water from the inlet when I used it , it's just the lugging it across town , the inlet is about a 10 mile round trip. I don't know , it would be a good work out .Thinkin this one over!!!!!
Nothin like Organicreeferwater

[dattack]

Ouch.
75 cents/gallon?
Cost 35 cents/gallon at Jeff's exotic. Although I have been using the crystal marine for awhile because my LFS uses it and it happened to be the cheapest.

[organicreefer]

yeah seems like alot of $$$$....my other lfs is a dollar a gallon-other than that -as far as i know -im driving a good distance and its just not worth it.

if anyone that reads this happens to know where you can get NSW cheaper in the east bay area-please speak up.