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I'm looking at setting up a 6 gallon nano, so the cost of using the Catalina seawater won't be prohibitive. Does anyone know if it's sold locally?

Petco has it on their website but I doubt it be worth the extra cost of shipping. I haven't been in one of their stores for awhile so I'll have to check and see if it's available there.
 
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if you have a petco membership it is like $8.99 for 10 gallons
 
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Why not just make your own? It is cheaper, and I would venture to say better.

-Glenn
 
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hmpitags2006 said:
Why not just make your own? It is cheaper, and I would venture to say better.

-Glenn

Becuase, for the very low cost of doing a one gallon water change, I wouldn't have to mess with mixing any water. Of course that's supposing I can get it without having to have it shipped or drive across town to find some.

I can't imagine synthetic salt water is better than natural seawater.
www.catalinawater.com
 
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Really. That's the one I went to and I didn't see it. I asked the guy working there and just got a song and dance about how overworked they are. BTW, they pay $10/hr if you know anyone looking for work. :lol:

I'll have to go back and take a more thorough look. Thanks!
 
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I just buy mine from whatever LFS I am close to at the time. Is there a problem with using their water. My tank does not seem to have a problem with it.
 
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Well, that's the same as making your own. The advantage to Catlina, other than ease, is that it is natural (filtered) seawater; not synthetic. I'd like to give it a try.
 
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sean you might call petco at mason and I-10 they had some a couple of weeks ago.
 
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I buy 2 things every month. i mix my own salt but once in a while ill do my water changes with it. corals get really happy.
 
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Well guess what! They did have it at the Petco on Hwy 6. I went in to look one more time, and if not found, buy Oceanic.

Or course it wasn't with any of the other bottled waters, nor was it even with the saltwater products. It was on the floor (2 boxes) by itself over near the food freezer.

After loading them into my basket, I went over to the reptile/saltwater fellow and told him that they do in fact have the Catalina water.

Rather than say, "Oh..that's what you were talking about," or "I didn't even know we had that," he says that they just got it in about two weeks ago.

I reminded him that I was in just last week when he told me they didn't carry it and that other people told me that they did. He said they used to and then stopped and must have just gotten it back in - yeah right!

Anyway, apparently they do stock it, but not in very large quantities. I took the only two boxes they had. That will fill my tank and leave me with enough for a months worth of water changes though.

While I've got your attention, how much of a water change do you do after the cycle on a nano? I'm learning not to make too many assumptions about similarities between larger tanks and nanos - the usefullness of a DSB being one.

I just went with about a 1" sand bed - large grain.

Thanks for the help.
 
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I'm planning 20% for water changes, just trying to decide how much after the initial cycle - thinking 50%.
 
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