Transporting a Reef Tank

Walmart does however carry water that is steam distilled and purified by reverse osmosis. They sell it as plain ole distilled water for 59-69 cents a gallon. When I had a 10g set up I had a piece of plexi-glass cut to fit as a lid and had very little evap. A gallon for top offs would last two weeks easy.

 

Wait, Walmart has saltwater fish?

 

No they "only" have freshwater. That's awesome about them using distilled RO water because that's exactly what I was planning on using

 

My local Winn-Dixie has it too, but it more like 79-89 cents a gallon. Even though it's more costly I buy it because it's much closer than Wal-Mart. I have used Glacier vending machine water. It's in front of a lot of grocery stores and pharmacy stores like Walgreens and CVS. It's only carbon filtered RO water and it's probably not an absolute zero TDS every time but I've not had issues.

I live in an apartment so I don't have an RODI unit so make do the best I can in the way of quality water.

 

OHHHHH. Where will you purchase fish?

 

Cool Coastie! You seem to behaving a lot of success too. How do you do waterchanges? Do you always have a bucket full of extra salt mixed water ready to go as well as a waterchange bucket?

I'd either get my fish from a store in Rochester ny or Elmira ny or order from online. Either that or get them while I'm home in va

 

Just mix sum salt up in a bucket the night before with a powerhead, siphon the desired amount of water out into another bucket and add the new water that's been mixed for 24 hours

 

If you have a sink you can use the attachment to take on and off when you need to make water using this:

The Enterprise

Im currently in an apartment, while i don't get 0 tds, my tank is stable and ok. I have an AC110 fuge mod thats packed with chaeto and 3 mangroves, so that helps.

 

That's pretty col. Is it purely "mechanical" or physical filtration? Do the all out RO/DI units use electricity?

 

I just bought a RO/DI unit from spectrapure I got the refurb one it looks brand new and was $139 after shipping and no It doesn't use electricity you just plug it into a water source and turn on the water