UCSB Santa Barbara NSW Natural Sea Water...

[Reefski's]

i have a ford F-250 that is probably not designed to carry that much weight.

i use a Koi transport tank, and a 4 foot tall and 4foot diameter round barrel. then i pump the water out at my house into other holding containers through a garden hose hooked to a mag 12 pump.

Carl

[hex]

How long are you guys able to store this water without losing too much quality? Are you aerating it in holding containers somehow?

[richdragon32]

Thanks you for the replies guys. I just wish the water pressure on the system was a bit stronger so I can fill up faster, but I shouldn't complain considering it's free.

Richard

[NoCarrier]

Originally posted by hex
How long are you guys able to store this water without losing too much quality? Are you aerating it in holding containers somehow?

I keep mine sealed up in a trash can and just circulate it before I do a water change. No problems yet.

[hex]

Originally posted by NoCarrier
I keep mine sealed up in a trash can and just circulate it before I do a water change. No problems yet.

Are you able to keep it that way for weeks/months?

[NoCarrier]

Originally posted by hex
Are you able to keep it that way for weeks/months?

Yeah, a month or so with no problems...

[Reefski's]

i have kept mine in an open container for weeks at a time with no apparent ill effects. i have gotten some growth of single cell algae in the tank that i think is fed by airborne dust etc, falling in. in my new setup i will have it in a closed container one of these days. i would make sure you aerate it well before use although reading others comments above it can be used immediately and cold.

Carl

[Crusty Old Shellback]

I used to store it out side in 55G trashcans for months. No heat or aeriation. They do the same at UCSB. No ill effects. But now that I have such a big tank, I use it all that day I get it since I'm doing 50% water changes on my tanks. Still no aeriation or heat other than when I fill up the trashcans and drive home with it.

[818]

Anyone in the SF valley bringing back a ton of water? I wanna give this water a try. I can help with gas money. I have a 50g brute I would like to fill.

[richdragon32]

I can probably go with you one of these nights... I live in Granada Hills.

[Crusty Old Shellback]

Sam, how about stopping by my place for the UV, then you could head up to UCSB and get all the water you can carry.

I'll let you know later about the swap. Got a couple of things pending on my plate right now and I'm waiting for a confirmed date so I'll know when I can head your way.

[phishx]

well... i havent read the whole thing... but assuming how everyone keeps talking about the UCSB sire during the first 5 pages.... i think its safe to assume that there is NO LB FREE WATER?

[Kinetic]

no lb free water.

nice turbine

[phishx]

t3/t4

[818]

Is this water ok to use for SPS reef.

Can anyone tell me what page if this water has been tested so I can see the results as in Ca, MG, SG, ALK, PH etc.

Haha Ray dont tempt me. I just might, but an explorer with a 55g brute will be hard to unload.

Rich Dragon, how often do you go? You have a truck Im assuming? I drive an explorer for now...working on a truck.

[Kinetic]

hopefully blownchevy will respond. this water is most likely the best water anyone could ever use for a reef tank, regardless of what kind of corals.

just by the way it's filtered, it's top notch. checkout the tour one of the reef clubs took. I'm not sure where, which again is why I hope blownchevy will relink us. But that tour sold them on the fact that nothing could beat the water at UCSB.

I've seen nothing but beautiful reef tanks that use UCSB's NSW.

That's gotta mean something.

[818]

Also how in the world do you guys unload?

[Crusty Old Shellback]

OK, OK, I'll try to answer. There's a link in here somewhere that Docdave put in. If you can't find it, I'll try to relink. It was our club, MASVC, that did the tour. We're going to try and do another one this summer.

The water is a bit low in calicum but that's no big deal, just add a little. And since most of us supliment that anyways, it's no big deal. My tank is a mixed reef and everything is doing fine. I'm going on 3 years of using UCSB water. SG is 36 ppt. It's NSW. Everything else is fine.

UCSB filters the water 24/7/365. They use it 24/7 in their research facility. It's a open system and flows 24/7. they do not put anything in it as it returns to the ocean.

As for moving it, I usually cary 5 55G trash cans in the back of my truck. When I get home, I have a garden hoes that I hook up to a pump, run a extension cord out and just pump it straight into my tanks after draining some of the water. If I want to store it, I dump it straight from the truck tashcan into one sitting on the ground. It's a calculated pour and I'm good at it now so that I don't spill any.

[d0cdave]

Here ya go... (previous page)

Originally posted by d0cdave
Carl (And anyone else interested):

Sign up on MASVC.org. We might be planning another tour this year for the club. We had one last year and it was very imformative. Linky: http://www.masvc.org/cgi-bin/ikonboa...;t=143;hl=ucsb

[NoCarrier]

Originally posted by My F1sh R D34D!
Also how in the world do you guys unload?

Here's my new technique, which I just used last night for the first time. Worked great. I put two 32 gallon trash cans in to the back of my nissan pathfinder (mid-size suv). Fill them each about 2/3 full, because the splashing gets a little crazy on the drive, even with the lid on.

When I get home, I have a big rubbermaid Brute trash can (probably 40-50 gallons) with a dolly, and I wheel it out to the car. Then I just use a nice big tube and siphon the water from the cans in the car in to the big can on the ground.

Eventually I'd like to put bulkheads with valves on the side of the two smaller trash cans, down near the bottom, so that I can just turn the valve and let it rip, rather than having to start the siphon.

[Reefski's]

Also how in the world do you guys unload?

with a pump into wheeled trash cans for now.

somewhere on the UCSB.edu website there is a discription of the whole system.

i've never had a problem. i have left the water out in the sun uncovered for weeks and after a while there is some kind of algae growth.

Carl

[glaudds]

Originally posted by My F1sh R D34D!
Is this water ok to use for SPS reef.

Can anyone tell me what page if this water has been tested so I can see the results as in Ca, MG, SG, ALK, PH etc.

From earlier in the thread...

Originally posted by glaudds
Out of curiosity, I tested the water and no surprise, the readings were consistent with NSW... CA=410, alk=2.5 meq/L, nitrates undetectable, salinity 1.026.

I've got one of those 60g drums that I lay down on it's side in the back of my SUV (I built 2x4 braces to secure it and keep it from rolling around). I threaded a valve into the cap on the drum so that I can hook up a hose.
Once I get home, I back my SUV into the garage run a hose into the sump and let gravity do the work.

[hex]

I don't have a truck so I've been hauling 10 five gallon jugs. Be sure and check the cargo load capacity of your car/van/suv though ... salt water weighs 8.5 lbs per gallon!

[Crusty Old Shellback]

Well it looks like I'm moving up to the carloskoi realm.

I picked up a 400G container this weekend and will be beefing up my trailer to mount it on for hauling water for water changes. I'm going to need that much now that I'm going to be running 3 tanks, 2 - 400G and a 72 G.

I'll probably just use gravity as well to drain it. That or a small pump hooked up on the output. But I think gravity will work if I send it to the sump and do the tanks in the right order. I usually try to do about a 50% water change so I'll use up all the water at once.

[bigian]

My corals and clams LOVE this h2o