Should you collect seawater for your aquarium?
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- There has always been some controversy in the saltwater aquarium hobby about collecting your own seawater to use in your aquarium. This is my experience with that issue.
Did you find this video helpful and want to support the channel personally? Just click this link and buy me a coffee. No memberships or subscriptions required. It's easy! www.buymeacoff...
or, you can tip any amount $1.00 or above in bitcoin. My BTC wallet is 3HZeWhSwzFuX37uLf2ZDP4rRMssWWZXDD5
Support this channel. Click an Amazon link below.
Main Amazon link amzn.to/2kXXXjt
Our Recommended Aquarium Products
Hang 0n Back Refugium amzn.to/2mxLpLP
Freeze Dried Mysis Shrimp amzn.to/2kY4lqH
Mini compact flourescent 50/50 screw in bulb amzn.to/2lbPBzQ
Tetra Whisper Filter 5-10 gallon amzn.to/2miY4Xd
65 watt straight pin power compact bulbs amzn.to/2miEcTT
RIO Plus 180 Aqua Pump amzn.to/2lWO2KG
Sun Sun 1300 GPH Wavemaker amzn.to/2kYfaJo 
Животные
Finally someone talking sense!!! remember where marine animal come from its called the ocean!!! not artificial mix salt and chemicals!!! Collecting natural sea water and using it in your saltwater aquarium has a number of advantages over using a sea salt mix and tap or even reverse osmosis water. A number of people have described the water in the oceans as a "soup" because of all of the "bottom of the food chain stuff" in it that makes the oceans work.
Agreed!!
"The only people who say don't use water from the ocean don't do it themselves"
I wish this had more views. I feel like any smart store owner is going to say no so they can sell you stuff.
When I lived in Florida and had boats, I would collect my seawater far from shore and use it unfiltered in my 80 gallon and 60 gallon aquariums. Never had a single problem. I also collected tiny fish and invertebrates while scuba diving, and kept them in those tanks until they grew large enough to eat other creatures in the tank. Then I returned them to the exact type of habitat where I found them.
If you live near a CLEAN source of seawater it will do wonders for your reef tank. It's free, perfectly balanced and full of beneficial food and microorganisms you won't find in a bag of salt mix.
I've been keeping a saltwater aquarium for over a year using the store bought synthetic salt for reef tanks, and now I'm using a natural salt from sea agri called sea-90 in my saltwater reef aquarium. This salt is marketed as a mineral fertilizer for use in agriculture and aquaculture. Sea-90 is naturally harvested from the Sea of Cortez from ocean water and this salt contains all the 92 elements naturally found in ocean water. I'm making videos showing my reef tank using the sea-90 on my channel. Thanks
Hey man nice video .when I had my 450 gallon tank I used to go down by the ocean and with my 75 gallon container I just pump some sea water in there every 3 weeks and my tank ran perfectly fine for 4 years, before I broke it down and sold it. you can you see water just to make sure you're not by the highway or a boating dock I live in Florida so I used to go to Skyway and on the other side of the pier that's where I catch my water. I also would go home and put it through a very fine filter socks to get anything out of it and it works perfectly fine for me
Thanks for the comment.
Same exact place I go!
I live in Gibraltar, where we have salt water on tap. Been using sea water for 4 years and all good.
I’ve collected my own water from Southern California for years. Like you, I’ve never had any issues.
Yeah ik this is late but, if i fill my tank with sea water and i do a water change do i take half ish out and then refill it with Ocean water or do i refill the whole tank? Thank you!
@@dannyhectare4295 I personally do 25% water changes a month using ocean water heated to the tank temperature. I do not do any type of filtering of the water.
@@pulherst ok thank you, also its a 20 gallon tank so if i do water changes of 25% I wont need to add any salt or anything? And also if i have some aerotors and a filter and heater than im ready for fish?
And wen u use the sea water how often should do a water change nice video love it
I actually learned a lot. Thanks
Make a filter for the top of those water jugs by cutting a piece of cheese cloth and attaching it with a clean rubber band. That will take care of the visible debris and you can filter it further at home.
I been doing it since 10 years ago when I started it's been working fine and I collect it from shore
Wow, you have just blown my mind. A few questions if i may:
1. If i use seawater and sand from the ocean, will i need to cycle my tank?
2. If so, to the recommended specs which other videos recommend?
3.I'm thinking of running a canister filter, what are your thoughts on filtration?
4. If i'm using live sand, will that negate the use of live rocks?
5. Finally, if i use seawater, does that mean i will always have to use seawater in that tank, can i pre-mix if i can't make it to the ocean to get seawater?
Apologies for the millions of questions, but this like i said, has given me another perspective on marine tanks. FYI, i'm thinking of getting a 65G tank.
Yes. You will still need to cycle like normal. You will still need a lot of live rock unless you are relying on mechanical filtration, which I don't know much about. I only use live rock, live sand, and refugiums.
He didn’t answer your questions, but I can answer number 5. When I used to have 80 gallon tanks, I would collect my own seawater from my boat well out to sea. However, if I wasn’t going boating at the time I needed to add water to the tanks, I would use the commercial sea salt to mix enough to fill top them off until I could get out to sea again. My tanks stayed healthy with that method.
How frequently do you change water. And is there any requirement to keep seawater in darkness for six months as I have read in some books. Does natural seawater cause any problems for fish.
Even I used to collect natural seawater from the beach when I lived closer to the beach. But later I started mixing salt.
I live in nz and i recon our seawater is really clean.
I just collected some ocean water from a Miami beach and scooped up some sand too. I'm just running a simple undergravel filter. Trying to see if anything will grow on its own. Should be lots of live organisms.
I've never used an undergravel filter for saltwater aquariums. If you got the sand under the water at the beach, especially next to any rocks or plants, there should be some life in it. You just need some water flow to oxygenate the water and to sit back and watch what emerges. You might see small crabs, snails, amphipods or copepods emerge, and who knows what else. Keep in mind that the nitrogen cycle will start in the tank and ammonia will begin building up unless you add fully cured live rock or live sand from an established aquarium.
The sand was collected on the beach some from the water edge and some from a little higher. It wasn't a lot, so pretty sure I would have seen any large creatures. I'm thinking there might be some on larval stage. Thanks for the info!
Whattttttttt..... I have been told don't
An have to buy expensive ass.... Product.... To put in the aquarium
Also can bata survive?
please go to a pet store and learn lmao
But my mom said that the fish still died 😢
I am using sea water and my tank creatures are happy and fine
Good to hear.
Bro can we use sea salt for marine aquarium? Natural sea salt instead of buying packaged salt? Pls reply
@@nirmaldhanush2307 if you yourself collect sea water and let it evaporate to get salt then it should be fine.
@@nirmaldhanush2307 yes
Enjoy that yellow and black stripe damsel for now. In a few months they turn grey and a PITA just like any other damsel.
I have had mine for 4 years, and it still retains it's color. Gets along with my tomato clown and other damsel as well. I think lightly stocking the tank, which is what I advise probably helps.
Would you recommend running water through a uv sterilizer type filter before you set up aquarium...I wanna try the natural method to my tank but my worries is add parasites and unwanted guests
If you wait 30 days or more to add livestock, you shouldn't need to. Parasites won't survive without hosts. I've never had a problem with parasites from seawater anyway. I put it through a sock filter to get any particulate matter out.
I live in panacea, Florida can I collect my water and it be fine for a nano reef tank with clown fish and scarlet hermit crabs??
But can I use new hampshire sea water for the tropical aquarium.
Can I ask if I get water from the docks where I live, if tho it's kinda murky will it clear? I want to use my spare tank for crabs for the kids. If not I will still collect the water for the crabs when we go crabbing.
Try dragging enough five gallon buckets to fill any aquarium over 30 gallons from the beach to your car😂
So would there be any difference between Florida water, vs Northern Water say from Massachusetts? I am looking to set up my tank, and went out on a pier and got a 5 gallon drum of water. Was thinking this was easiest way to do this...but then i watched a bunch of videos saying dont do this. So wanted to see if the part of the world you are in makes any difference?
Great video, I’ve normally only seen videos of people trying to sell products. This is very promising I’m keen to try! Would you suggest boiling it for a few minutes and/or UV treatment just to be sure and for longer term storage?
I don't know if boiling would cause any issues or not. All I do is pour the water through a fine filter.
how long can you keep your nsw from your holding container. im also doing the same method but not sure how long can i keep
About two weeks to indefinitely Has to be sealed and no sunlight getting, or light of any kind getting in so anything alive will oxidize.
Nice! Thanks :).
nice videos keep it up
Thanks.
How about the ca/mg/kh do you test all of em?
I really interesting about nsw. Yesterday I bought nsw and I checked the salinity it is 1015 so I adding some asw till 1026 which is same as my tank.
Just becouse the water is clean in your paticular area, doesn't mean it's clean everywhere else.
Hi, thank you for sharing your knowledge. How
often should I change the seawater? Will that be 10 % of the water or the whole fish tank? I just got a new fish tank and I live right on the beach! Also, can I get sand and rocks from the beach? Thank you 🙏🏾
I would recommend only changing 10% a week ATM just so your fish slowly adjust.
Also give sand a miss so many little parasites an many other things like stuck oil witch you will not see like I didn't but a week later all my sand was black all my shrimp where dead! Manage to save all the fish. Sand is really cheap just grab it at the store deffo grab rocks shells fish all most everything just make sure it cleaned ;)
@@Samantha-ot9bq I wonder is there any reason why we couldn't also use natural sea sand. Obviously from a remote beach.
I live in Ireland where the sea is cold (55f/12c) so I presume most of the life in sea water or sand here wouldn't survive in a reef tank.
I live in Tampa and thinking about doing this! Its how I found it on youtube! paying all this money to get live sand and salt! Not to mention bio spira, so almost 50 buck! i own a property 10 minutes from beach. I should do this! What about the sand for your aquarium and what about cycling it for a new aquarium. I could just go to beach and bring home water and add fish that day right? I mean I am only doing a ten gallon! haha I was online now ordering live sand too and salt! No brainer! lol One thing though is the water wouldnt be as clear. I wonder if it ould clear p after being filtered and all
Live sand from the beach won't be cycled. Will still need to go through the cycling process unless you get live sand or live rock from a cycled aquarium. I have started cycled aquariums from scratch several times by doing that.
You should turn your pool into a saltwater reef pond!
L.J.s Reef that b cool
can i use beach sand in aquarium
I have used sand from the water at the beach in 2 of my aquariums. It will be live sand and you will go through the ammonia cycling process, but it is not usually very severe. Might be a few critters in it too, especially if you get it from next to some rocks/rubble. I have not used dry sand from the beach before. Sand from the water should be safer.
No you can't unless you live near a tropical beach like cancun otherwise the water is so dirty sand and water I had a friend who tried it never cleared in the tank and he added a fish and died within an hour
BigYingAdventurestoo yes you can , I have use it for my tanks , just make sure is from a non contaminated area , and if it’s from in the ocean better because is live sand and helps with filtration . Non contaminated means no people around and no boats !,
What to do if the salinity natural water is less than it should be..
That's never been an issue for me, since the salinity level is always on the upper end of what aquarium keepers use. If it's not a major difference, just don't add fresh water that replaces evaporated water. Onlt add more saltwater and you'll get your salinity levels to what you want.
So you can use natural sea water as long as there are no boats for oil spill?
Dione Sandoval That's been my experience. Yes.
What about using sand straight from the shore and putting it to your marine tank. Is this ok
Dione Sandoval I did that for my 55 gallon reef tank that has been set up for 15 years and for the eel tank almost as long. Got it from the water at the beach next to some rocks and rubble. So it was basically live sand.
Its like playing the unlucky lottery. You can play the game many times but just takes one time to ruin or kill a tank. BTW, I collect water and sand from a local coast for my tanks. But I would never do this for a reef tank with thousands of dollars worth of corals and fish. Only for my tanks with locally collected livestock and hardy common fish.
15 years without a problem is a long time. That being said, I have never paid more than $20 or $30 for a coral, and usually much less than that.
I'd protein skimmer compulsory for NSW ? I'm very close to sea .do I need any filtration before putting fish ?
No and no. Just stick to a schedule of regular water changes and don't overstock your tank or overfeed. If you overstock and overfeed you will definitely need a skimmer.
BigYingAdventurestoo how often should I change water in 70 litre tank and the percentage ?
The more often the better. At a minimum I would do about a 20% change once a month for an established tank. If it's a new tank, I would do about a 15% change every two weeks, or even 10% every week. I have done 50% changes in small tanks every two or three weeks.
how do you avoid on bringing ich to your acuarium? I did it and it got very bad
I don't tend to keep fish that are prone to getting ich. If it's a concern, you can always run seawater through a filter sock first.
I'm glad this works for you but anyone else who is gonna try this I highly recommend you not to or if u are wanting to try it buy a cheap saltwater fish and see what happens after. The tropical saltwater fish you can buy at ur local pet store are not use to water that dirty and will die how do I know this my friend tried it
There are lots of reasons why a fish you buy dies. If the water was from a source like I recommend, then it's not the water.
I would never use them buckets
do you have email..i want to learn more about using NSW in aquarium..tq
It a bit late but hahaha no more aquarium water purchase
sea pure ....
Live rock? Live sand? Here ya go, live water! I’m gonna start collecting this and charging $10 a gallon!
Ok jack
i can see that its not helping the tank to look good .. if that tank is 16 years old and looks like shit i would not use water from sea .. my tank is one year and looks 100 times better so DONT ever use natural sea water !!!!
nice video bigying thumps up and a sub from me..
Thanks for the positive feedback.
Need to invest in a pump dude.
Did I hear right you put chlorine tablets in the white buckets?
No. I will sometimes pour the water through a brine shrimp net before it goes in the aquarium, but I don't always do that either.