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Old 09/27/2007, 10:49 PM
HowardW HowardW is offline
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<<< I was thinking even Catalina water (company that supplies LFS with ocean water out of California)... >>>


No No No.....don't use that Catalina Real Ocean Water! From speaking with others as well as personally testing 2 brand new unopened 5g boxes purchased from a local Petco, that stuff is very inconsistent and anything but unaltered NSW. One box of that stuff I tested (6 times) had an alkalinity of nearly 19dKH from being way over buffered with the soda ash they use, and other critical parameters were also inconsistent from box to box.
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