New to the Northwest/Water Quality

[Crack31]

Hello all,
I am new to both Reef Frontiers and the northern Seattle area. I just relocated from Florida.
I just hooked up my RO/DI unit and did a comparison of the water. My tap water registered 26ppm. The filtered water was 1ppm. The tap water reading seems too low. If Orlando, the tap water was 150-250 ppm. Anyone in Seattle have tap water readings?
I had a 55 gal reef in Orlando. With such a long move (took 5 weeks for my belongings to arrive), I sold my corals, inverts, fish and rock back to the local fish store. I used the credit to buy a 14 gal bio cube. I will start over with this set up this weekend. Once I decide if I like the area, I will move to a bigger setup.
This weekend, I will be looking for live rock. Anyone know of a good place to get live rock in Northern Seattle?
I look forward to being a part of Reef Frontiers.

 

[roscoe]

Welcome!! You are at the right place to get great deals on LR and other great stuff for the hobby. Just take a look at the LS for sale forum. Thre are an abundant of local reefers in WA.

 

[dailydriven911]

Hello all,
I am new to both Reef Frontiers and the northern Seattle area. I just relocated from Florida.
I just hooked up my RO/DI unit and did a comparison of the water. My tap water registered 26ppm. The filtered water was 1ppm. The tap water reading seems too low. If Orlando, the tap water was 150-250 ppm. Anyone in Seattle have tap water readings?
I had a 55 gal reef in Orlando. With such a long move (took 5 weeks for my belongings to arrive), I sold my corals, inverts, fish and rock back to the local fish store. I used the credit to buy a 14 gal bio cube. I will start over with this set up this weekend. Once I decide if I like the area, I will move to a bigger setup.
This weekend, I will be looking for live rock. Anyone know of a good place to get live rock in Northern Seattle?
I look forward to being a part of Reef Frontiers.

Seattle's water > Orlando's water...:lol:

 

[Darthv247]

oh they have LOTS of water

 

[Myteemouse]

welcome to the wet northwest!!
And welcome to RF

 

[boatswainmate]

welcome to the blog

 

[jhampton_wsu]

My tap water is around 40ppm before it goes into my ro/di unit. Welcome to Seattle.

Jason

 

[dailydriven911]

Welcome btw...

 

[gas4544]

Welcome to Seattle and Reef Frontiers. I also live in the Lynnwood area. You will be very glad that you found this website. You may be interested in joining our local reef club, the PSAS.

Gary

 

[G&NSalty425]

I just went and did a quick test 106 for me in Sammamish which is up from the last time I tested it was like 80 something.

 

[jamiehill]

I live in Lynnwood/Everett and ours is usually between 25 and 40 out of the tap.

 

[Myteemouse]

I live in Tacoma/Parkland and mine is 22ppm in and 0ppm out

 

[trido]

I live in Lynnwood/Everett and ours is usually between 25 and 40 out of the tap.

Mine averages a tiny bit lower 25-35 in the south Lynnwood/Bothell area. Thanks for filtering that extra five off of the high side for me Jamie.

 

[dhnguyen]

Hello all,
I am new to both Reef Frontiers and the northern Seattle area. I just relocated from Florida.
I just hooked up my RO/DI unit and did a comparison of the water. My tap water registered 26ppm. The filtered water was 1ppm. The tap water reading seems too low. If Orlando, the tap water was 150-250 ppm. Anyone in Seattle have tap water readings?
I had a 55 gal reef in Orlando. With such a long move (took 5 weeks for my belongings to arrive), I sold my corals, inverts, fish and rock back to the local fish store. I used the credit to buy a 14 gal bio cube. I will start over with this set up this weekend. Once I decide if I like the area, I will move to a bigger setup.
This weekend, I will be looking for live rock. Anyone know of a good place to get live rock in Northern Seattle?
I look forward to being a part of Reef Frontiers.

The water reading sounds about right for the area.
For LR hit up Jonathan (jnarowe) as he's breaking down his 1000 gallon tank the week of the 25th and he has plenty of established LR to go.

http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=453346&posted=1#post453346

 

[jnarowe]

Water quality all depends on the source of course. My well reads about 80 ppm on average, but it varies in nitrates and phosphates. It's not so much the "ppm" but what it is made of since somethings are nmore difficult to filter out than others. The fact that you have "1 ppm" out bound means something is not right IMO. Keep in mind that CO2 can eat up resin very quickly too.

If you are on any kind of public water supply, I would do some extra leg-work and find out what they add to the water. For instance, some will add ammonia and/or phosphate. If you are on a well system, then you would look more for nitrates, phosphates, and slilicates. BUT, every supply is different and do not trust what they tell you. Just file it and do your own testing. It is so inexpensive to get water tested in a lab, I would recommend you do that as well. I trust SpectraPure for that. You can contact Scott there for a wealth of water quality information. I also understand there is a lab in the South End of Puget Sound that will test for things that matter to us. Many labs just test for "human" issues, so you have to be careful about that.

About the rock: It will be coming out of my system on the 27th at 9 AM. Anyone who is here at the time can buy it direct from me @ $4/lb, otherwise it will be $7/lb at the Shark Reef later. The benefit of buying it direct is the myriad of corals, sponges, coraline, etc. on the rock. It is Marshall Island rock BTW.

Good luck!

 

[johnpeezy]

if you have to pay for water like i do...

http://www.watertogo.com/main/default.aspx

Is a BA place to get it (its also right across the street from me)