IF there was a service that offered Containers of scientific grade, filtered and sterilized pure ocean water delivered directly at your doorstep(like a milk man i guess) would you be interested? How much would you pay for the convinience? I am considering offering a service like that on some scale in my local area so I'm just brainstorming and wondered what you might consider fair for this? Any input would be great!
Deliveried Natural Sea water?
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Just make sure you have the permits to collect water. Fines can be heafty.
Most people won't want to risk the chance of contamination. You'd have to be really on top of what is getting done in the sterilization process, plus be aware of natural changes happening along the coast.
Most people won't want to risk the chance of contamination. You'd have to be really on top of what is getting done in the sterilization process, plus be aware of natural changes happening along the coast.
Zoodiver;4989772; said:
I purchase it from the seattle aquarium, its what they use in all of their tanks including their reef, research aquariums. I can buy as much as I want for next to nothing, but most people don't want to deal with loading docks and transporting the stuff. I would most likely run it through another company I own and take out insurance depending on how things look. I'm still just kicking it around at this point.
Unless i knew for a fact that what I was getting wasnt going to cause an issue, I wouldnt want to bother. I currently, for salt mix, pay ~30 cents per gallon.
The shipping is going to be expensive too. 5 gallons is going to weight about 42lbs.
The shipping is going to be expensive too. 5 gallons is going to weight about 42lbs.
Heathd;4990086; said:
I would be delivering it since I am aiming at local(25 mile radius) at first, and I can get the water at 5 cents a gallon, water from a lfs is 1$ at best around here and there is just as much trust involved there.
I use the water in all my setups, it works great for me. If its good enough for research its good enough for the home aquarium, I understand why people are skeptical, but as I said above, there is just as much trust. But I have scientists and proffesional aquarium keepers preparing this water, not a kid working minimum wage after smoking a bowl of reefer(thats what you get in the northwest lol)
brich999;4990700; said:
Yea, I'm still working out my game plan on that part. I am working on a deal with a lfs to bring them water since I could sell it to them at a profit for less than they spend on salt and man hours to mix and all that. I was just curious if anyone had any thoughts
I have a large trailer and will end up getting a storage tank to toss in the back of it, but we shall see. In a perfect world I would just get 10 people or so and go from there. I work at 3am-11am so my afternoons are open to making extra spending cash, so Im trying to think outside the box for something to work on.Catalina water company out in california is doing this, and making a killing. I wish the best to you on this endeavor.
Like heath said, since my well is pure, I am paying foster and smiths crazy low salt prices and nothing else. My salt works out to be about $0.27 a gallon.
Its funny how everyone complains about the salt, and it the cheapest part of the damn hobby. haha
Like heath said, since my well is pure, I am paying foster and smiths crazy low salt prices and nothing else. My salt works out to be about $0.27 a gallon.
Its funny how everyone complains about the salt, and it the cheapest part of the damn hobby. haha
turbo253;4990749; said:
If you pay me enough I could probably get it there lol. Its gonna be just a bit more than a dollar a gallon....
FLESHY said:
I agree on the complaining about the salt expense. It really isn't that much, I have a full RO/DI system and salt for emergencies, but so far for using the new water my coriline is going absolutely crazy, even after going from a power compact light to a shoplight t12 fixture(for the short term). I'm sure their are some essential elements that don't make their way into salt mixes, don't ask me to name any though lol