Marine saltwater fishtank using tap water. Don't believe the hype.

[MrPeacfulwarrior]

THANK YOU! IM NOT BUYING ANY RO WATER

[brandonkr]

if you watch lafishguys here on youtube, you will see a video of his friend doing a water change on a coral reef tank, and he only uses tap water with triple dosed dechlor. no algae or anything. its funny because hes using LA tap water.

[lybo5646b]

zack bicknell of zacks repair can get even better fish fresh !

[mtsn]

People use RO but forget other details much more important than that. If your tap water is fine why not use it? I guess the main reason to not use it is IF it has too many phosphate then it can cause an algae bloom.

[MrSteveLuigi]

To answer a few questions asked in your comments.

In none of my original post did I mention I had corals.

I don't live in the States, I live in the UK where water treatment is of the highest quality.

ALL of the fish in the original video are STILL alive and kicking AND I still use tap water.

[thefirstbrianmiller]

I don't see any corals either.................



[thefirstbrianmiller]

pretty bold statement... tap water treatment has evolved greatly in the last 40 years and is different for every county. RODI is an absolute must for recreating a marine environment to remove the water-source variable.

If you live out in the boonies using a water-well as your source, it would be much more 'natural' than a city treatment system--still foolish not to use RODI regardless of your location.

[09Jacobsdad]

@thefirstbrianmiller acuatully the boonie and well water is worse becuz it has WAY more minerals and hard metals then town water fyi check the facts the man has a nice tank dont hate

[Nomimasubiru420]

thats not saying much, all that says is that he has good tap water where he lives, trying to make people avoid R/O water is retarded, the tap water was fine at my old house 3 hours away, i move over here and it will kill stuff.

[MootsTaint]

I know a guy that uses tap water only and he has some amazing corals and invertebrates. I think the key is to keep your bio load manageable and not overstocked and keep the chemical filtration top notch. He uses Prime as his dechlorinator/detoxifier and hasn't lost a fish/coral/invert yet.

[MriBackup]

Do you declorinate?!

[samubabe101]

Looks Great I Have a 20gal long fish only and I use tap water. But in my 10 gallon reef I use RO because of the heavy metals that damage my corals but I put a chunk of live rock in my fish only with some tree coral frags on it and they are diong fine. SO FOLK'S IT'S TRUE.

[bratcherone]

cracking looking tank, like the niger they are very clever fish. I agree with your comments I keep sps lps inverts etc and now use RO water but there is alot of stuff out that wasnt available years ago and it never did my old tank any damage.

[steveluigi01]

mastainventa, the proof is in the pudding and the eating mate. Look at the vid, I posted this topic nearly a year ago and all the fish in the tank are still alive and kicking, plus i have added a saddleback clown 3 months ago (Christmas) and he's living happily and in harmony with the other fish. How can you argue with visual proof?

[crzyp852]

hes write i also use tap water and my corals n fish do just fine and the only filtration i have is liverock n a protein skimmer

[steveluigi01]

No one said anything about keeping corals and invertibrates in tap water? My point is that you don't need RO water to keep marine/saltwater fish as we are led to believe.

[mastainventa]

not true chlorine and Chloramine are both found in tap water to make it safe to drink they are also very toxic to fish. it depends on the quantity if it will kill them or not. any amount will stress fish and put there immune system under stress resulting in weaker fish and less resistant immune systems. also water company's vary the amount they put in the water so your water may be less toxic one month and deadly the next. so you spend the cash on fish ill spend it on an ro unit every time

[mastainventa]

also my mum lives just 4 miles away from me and i guarantee if you put your fish in her water every single one would die as she has tried to keep them and she cant without an ro unit i even went up and set her tank up and put fish in twice and they died so i put ro water from my house in her tank got some fish they were fine. 1 week later she put 20% of tap water in and all died except one and the other died a week later. i gave her my old ro unit as i upgraded and her fish are fine now

[mastainventa]

lol try keeping corals and invertebrates m8. tap water contains more than just chlorine it also contains heavy metals and a hole range of nasty s . you keep ya tap water ill keep my ro water

[crzyp852]

depends wat part of the states you live some states have better tap water then others i use tap water as well and have sps lps n wide variety of fish in a 50 gallon n they are doing just fine....

[mastainventa]

they vary the amount they put in in any part. say your having a drought in that part then they will add more waste water from the sewage then filter it more and add lots and lots of nasty shit and kill your fish and corals in the proses. and Chloramine is more toxic than chlorine and in that situation they will probably add more of the most toxic as it is more toxic to viruses and such

[kuromizusan]

Great ! , you saved my butt cuz i was nearly gonna buy RO water.

[tiitytat]

yeah, I use tap water with declorinator and salt in it that sits in gallon jugs for a few days before being added due to evaporation. Water tests are good so why change water? However, you need a bigger tank, that Nigger trigger is so unhappy in there.

[MrSteveLuigi]

He's REALLY happy, feeding well, getting on with tank mates, had him for 1 and a half years and he's still alive, What makes you think he's unhappy? Remember before you answer that 'Fish don't read books' and most of the time buyingg and keeping fish is trial and error.

[zkiller142]

so 5/5 and a sub but thats tap water?