Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ihnp4!inuxc!inuxd!jla
From: jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Marine Equiptment
Message-ID: <1132@inuxd.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 14:30:55 GMT
References: <498@acheron.UUCP> <1124@inuxd.UUCP> <5019@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Indianapolis
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> In article <1124@inuxd.UUCP> jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews) writes:
> >Since I am only a few feet from clean sea water, 
> 
> >	Joyce Andrews King                      
> >	ihnp4!inuxd!jla
> >	AT&T, Indianapolis
> 
> 
> 	I guess I didn't realize Indianapolis was a seaport.  Here all along I
> thought it was in the heartland of America.

> and let pure seawater in at night.  Apparently pure seawater is cloudy and
> reduces the opticality (?).

I'm sorry.  I thought the readers in this group knew that I live
in the Florida Keys but work in Indianapolis via the miracle of
modern communications.  I will try to make that more clear from
now on.

I am REALLY considering this now.  At first it was a "gee whiz"
wouldn't that look nice, but now it is starting to become a
necessity...aren't all "luxuries" like that?

Now, about "pure" seawater.  I can see to the bottom of my canal
right now, and it's at high tide, so I am looking through 15 feet
of clear water.  When I fill my 55 gallon tank (the one that used
to look big before I got THIS idea) with "pure" sea water it IS
cloudy for maybe twenty minutes, but clears up right away.  Could
that be air somehow mixed with the water during the pumping?  Or
maybe a little bit of fine sand that settles out?  I can go out
on the reef and count the ripples in the sand 20 feet down (when
are all of you going to come down and dive and see your fish
specimens in their natural suuroundings?).  Do you think there
will be a problem with opacity?

Anyway, I will let you know how supertank comes along.  I am
really serious about this, now.




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	Joyce Andrews King                      
	ihnp4!inuxd!jla
	AT&T, Indianapolis