Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!lll-winken!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Marine Equiptment
Message-ID: <2229@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 88 05:39:08 GMT
References: <498@acheron.UUCP> <1124@inuxd.UUCP> <5019@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1132@inuxd.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1132@inuxd.UUCP> jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews) writes:
>> 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.
>
Oh.  It was either that or teleportation, and since you dont
work for hplabs, the answer had to be a modem.

>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?

Well, seawater in the ocean is a living thing. It has phytoplankton
and zooplankton and god knows what other living critters in it.

When you confine seawater, some of the organisms die off, hence the cloudy
color, its probably a bacterial bloom.

Hate to be a downer, but there are also parasites in that stuff, and
treating the seawater with a ditomacous earth filter and possibly
UV light or ozone might be a good idea.

Now, I've never done any of this stuff, but this is a capsule summary
from what I've read.

What you are proposing HAS been done though, find a copy of
Robert P.L. Straugn's _The saltwater aquarium in the home_, 
wherein he describes his experiences in the florida area.



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