Testing Natural Sea Water for my Reef tank & a quick dive into Australian water.
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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This video is amazing. Many folks in UA-cam push to sell synthetic salt for aquariums. In reality you have proved that Natural seawater is the best (depending in location). I’m here in Florida and about 2 hours from Key west. The local pet store sells water they get from the reefs, I’ve never had a problem with nitrites or nuisance algae. I love NSW and highly recommend it. Thank you for the video!
Wish we could get some of that here in landlocked Minnesota, USA!! Great video. 💯
Hehe thank you so much!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
All australia where there is no coast line/ocean is red dirt desert 😂🤷♂️
Here in champlin mn as well lol 😂
You just made the best Aquarium video of 2022!
Hehehe thank you!! 😁😉🙌🙌
Beautiful! Beautiful beach and waters. Minnesota / Latvia here. Have aunts uncles cousins in Port Douglas Queensland and also in Sydney. Was in Port Douglas for a month years ago hope to go back some day. Have a 150 gallon salt 11 years now all used was idle last 4 years and just kick started it 8 months ago and have a whole new crew. I have a Lawnmower Blenny too and wow have some algae and he is clearing it out. Adding a German 5 gallon CPF 250 with a UV 13 watt bulb was a donation to me works great on Diamondback Terrapin salt pond. Switching it to now the 150. Just found your vids per canisters great stuff. Thank you. My profile pic is of one of my blue Diamondback Terrapins on of my gals.
No idea why im watching this, i've been reefing for 10 years lol. But I like the video, very nice and well explained!
Hehe thank you!! 😁🙌🙌🙌
I wish I was your neighbor! You’re so lucky 😊
Cool 😄👍
Living in Russia and watching how it is in Australia 😳👍
I would go to the beach every time to get water for my aquarium!! I envy you 😄👍
The seawater there looks beautiful! Interesting that the parameters there are very similar to the water we collect on the Gold Coast, except our magnesium is usually closer to 1370. Great video😊Cam
Oh that’s super interesting to know! Very cool! Thank you so much Cam! Hope you guys had a great Christmas 🤩🙌🙌🙌
I think I'm in love.
Would absolutely love to live in a place like that, what a dream, I have Blackpool promenade Lol 🤣 great video and really interesting the water perameters 🥰👏🙏
Hehehe thanks heaps Mogsy!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
I swear this has been one of the most useful videos that I have seen recently. Folks in the states like to talk about the ocean but in reality I don’t think we really know much about the ocean. Biggest take away for me is 8.3 pH!!!
Naww thank you so much Luca!!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
Awesome test comparison!
Thanks so much!! 🤩🙌🙌
very nice channel on UA-cam, keep recording interesting videos 🇵🇱🇵🇱
Thanks so much!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
This is a breakout video 🙂
Hehe thank you!! 😁🙌🙌
Excellent!
Thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
Watching from lake worth Florida wow you live in a beautiful area
Oh awesome!! Hehe thank you! 🤩🙌🙌
when I lived in Hawaii i use NSW for my tank and loved it. but moved back to the mainland to the snowy mountains no fresh Sw here. :(
I have always wanted to visit Aus. your area looks amazing.
Hehe it is amazing!! Hawaii would have been incredible! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
@@SimpleAquariumsLauren Hawaii is amazing! If you have a chance sometime i recommend it.
Same with the Rocky Mountains of the mainland US.
Beautiful there
Sure is!! 😁🙌🙌
Being from Portland Oregon USA I absolutely loved this video. Such a gorgeous place where you live. Thank you.
Naww thank you so much!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
It would be interesting to have people test the natural seawater in their region. I enjoy seeing the natural parameters. It was cool to see the parameters on the coast were nearly identical to the water collected out further in the ocean.
What a beautiful place to live!! If I had access to a location like that o would 100% use NSW unfortunately I live in London England 😆 great content as always 👌🏼
Hehe thank you so much!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
Wow, you guys down under drive on the wrong side of the street! Love your videos. Keep them coming.
Hehehe 😜 thank you so much! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
Great location footage amazing looking forward to see how your tank gets on 👌👍
Hehe thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌
This was super cool love the fact you can just collect water for your aquarium!!🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Hehehe thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌 so appreciate your support
Great video again
Thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
Gorgeous part of the world!! So great to have an endless supply of sea water.
Hehe it sure is!! 🤩🙌🙌
Super cool! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌
That fly really wanted to be in your video.
It did hey!! 🤣🤣🤣
What a great vid Lauren! You should get tourism royalties for promoting our town so beautifully 😁
Hehehe yesss I agree, who do I talk to about that?? 😂😂😜 thank you Gina!! Xx
I live in Newcastle NSW and use the natural sea water here and my corals and fish love it. I tried mixing my own a few times and just found the natural sea water heaps more stable. The only downside is if we gets heaps of rain you can’t collect it, but I have never run out. Thanks for the vid great to see Albany. Beautiful place. Cheers mate
Oh awesome!! Great to hear! 😁👏👏 thank you, super excited to use it!
Great idea to showcase the outdoors. Would love to see more of this.
Thank you so much!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
That was awesome! Thank you for that, we can’t do that in California the water is to cold to be useful to are needs. And your water is so clear, as are water is greenness brown and very high in toxins. I would like to visit you in Australia for one week, you can show me around and I will pay you for your time.
I enjoyed the video & tests and got some interesting insights from my son.
1. Apparently there are individuals who sell “reference sea water.” Labs buy it as a “standard.” So you were floating around in thousands of dollars of “reference standard.” 😄
2. Apparently the ocean is quite homogeneous throughout the world, and there are predictable equations to calculate the time for the ocean to correct for a change. Thus your water should be very stable and put our tanks to shame.
Thanks for the video and motivating my son to show me a scientific world I never knew existed. It is nice to see that after 3 1/2 years of a chemistry and earth & environmental science major science is still exciting for my son. It was also reassuring that he knows more than I. 😉
Keep exploring and asking questions,
Jim
That’s very cool to hear about your son 👏👏 yeah from what I’ve heard it’s very stable water all the time 🤩🙌🙌🙌
So beautiful 😍
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This was a cool video, thanks for showing us around!
Thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌 was lots of fun to make
love these videos!!
Thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
I love the Aussie accent! And my favourite words to hear you say are ‘sharks’, and ‘water’!
Ha! So thank you for this!
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Hahaha 😜🙌🙌🙌
Wow, you live in such a beautiful place! I Thank you for showing us. I can't wait to scuba dive there, beats our cold Vancouver waters. Happy 2022! Keep up the great work!
Heheh thank you so much!! Happy new year to you too!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
@@SimpleAquariumsLauren Thank you! :-)
Hey Lauren, a great video and boy you live on a beautiful part of Australia. We've been using NSW for over 5 years and have never had an issue. We get 2000lts delivered at a time. We then modify the parameters to match our tank and do auto water changes at 15litres a day. You may get sick of collecting every week
Oh awesome!! Great to hear!! 😁🙌🙌🙌 thank you!
You're awesome! ❤️
Thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌
@@SimpleAquariumsLauren ...you are most welcome! 😍
I used natural sea water for my aquarium in hawaii a few years ago.. expect lots of hitchikers in the water.. like barnicles and other lifeforms
I always wanted to move to Australia. Not to much these days but def would love to visit
Yeah for sure! You should! 😁🙌🙌🙌
nice to see what they write on the salt buckets is not far off from the real thing. looks like a nice area.
Yeah for sure!! 🤩🙌
I suddenly feel a whole lot more comfortable about my parameters...Red Sea Blu bucket at 1.025, virtually the exact same as what you've measured here. Happy chappy!
Wow the water is crystal clear compared to here in Miami. Also, not sure about there, but here you also have to worry about tide change when you collect nsw. There should be certain windows of time during the day when you should NOT collect. Happy New Year to you and your family👊
Yeah absolutely!! Thank you!! I hope you had an amazing Christmas and new year too!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
This was awesome! Happy new year! Such a beautiful place to live with some good NSW as well! 👍
Thank you so much!! Happy new year to you too!! 😁🙌🙌🙌
Love this....well done
Hehe thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌
Hello from Portugal! Just stumbled on your videos and loved them!!! I love your positive vibes ! I would still do an ICP to make sure there are no heavy metal pollutants which should still be detectable even after some days of travel.
Thank you so much!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌 yeah I’ve had a few people say this now! That’s very interesting 👏👏
Jelly Jelly! placing beach living on my list :-)
Hehehe 😜 I would recommend 😁😉
That is so awesome to just drop by the ocean and check out the view! too bad I live in the YYC and would have to fly to the beach =)
Hehe it’s pretty cool! 🤩🙌🙌Oh wow!
Thanks you for sharing the beautiful views of you country with us...and for risking your life with the sharks!!! Are there saltwater Crocs there too? All kidding aside... It's nice to see what the "on the spot" water chemistry looks like in the wild! Thank you!!
😂😂😂 thank you so much!! 🤩🙌🙌
Its so cool to see the scenery around Albany, one of the few times where I've actually been to the place where the video is being filmed. Really really cool!! 👍 Happy New Year 🎊
Oh awesome!! That’s so cool! Thank you! Happy new year to you too! 🥂🎆🤩🙌🙌
What a beautiful place to live! 👏👏👏
Maybe you should just try an ICP once. Even within Germany it can take up to one week until the analysis is done. And you have your test results and if necessary counter tests by local stores as a comparison.
...and what a place to do water tests. ☺️ That would be a challenge (wherever)! "Do a water test while standing in the test water."😉🤣
Hehehe yeah it was an interesting experience that’s for sure 🤣🤣🤣 ok good to know! 😁👏
It would definitely be silly not to use NSW. Very lucky to have that on your doorstep 😁 great vid 👍
Thank you! Yeah so keen to use it! 😁🙌🙌🙌
Alk at 7.3?? holy smokes that's lower than I expected.
Great video. I would love to visit the Great Barrier Reef one day
Yess same! It’s on my bucket list! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
wish the water was that clear here in the uk . great video
Hehe yeah! Thank you so much!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
I live near Albany too. Albany New York 😉
Great video! Thank you very much!
Thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
You are amazing Lauren 💖
Naww thank you Joseph! 🤩🙌🙌
I use nsw over here Queensland and love using it
Oh awesome! 👏👏 great to hear! 😁
Great video, looks so nice there!!
Thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
Happy New Year!! Thank you for sharing such an interesting video. Fascinating comparison between natural super clean sea water and man made salt water. Also a great show case for Albany. 👍👍
Happy new year to you too!! 😁🎇🥂 thank you so much!! 🤩🙌🙌
you’re so cute 🥰 beautiful aquarium to
Very cool video that Goby in its natural habitat and natural sea water test 👍 can’t do that here in New Orleans more like 🤮 water
Hehe wish all beaches were like this for everyone! thank you so much!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
Love it Lauren. You should definitely try NSW on the 6 foot tank. 👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks heaps Paul! 🤩🙌🙌🙌 Will do for sure! So excited to use it!
Love your vids mate well done
Thanks so much!! 😁🙌🙌
Lets go!! Loved this video! "Everything in Australia wants to eat you!"
Hehehe thank you so much Remy!! 🤩🙌🙌
Great video and it made me miss Australia! If I didn’t have all my family in the US, I’d move there for sure. How fun that you get to collect fresh seawater weekly! Meanwhile I’m mixing it in buckets while it’s negative 5 F outside lol
😱😱 that’s freezing! Hehe thank you!! Was lots of fun making this video 😁🙌
That's a very nice place! 🤩 I have always wondered if the water they get from the sea can have pests or even parasites. I know that could be solved with a UV filter, but that has always been my question regarding that. 🤔 The positive thing about that place is that without a doubt that water in that place is super clean. Very interesting topic and very interesting video! The best for you, health and success in this new year, Lauren! 🥂😊 - Ramon
Yeah for sure! 🤩🙌🙌🙌 thank you so much!! I’m actually struggling to find anyone (with experience using it themselves) say that they have had issues with it. So that’s a positive!! I know heaps of people who rave about it though! So super keen to give it a go! 👏
Hats off to you testing is annoying normally, so wouldn’t like to do it on site on a rock lol. I collect water from Stingray Point, Mandurah. Not the best place but I run carbon and have had no problems.
Oh awesome!! Thank you so much! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
Looks amazing! I use NSW in Scotland the waters a bit colder though 🥶😂
You can store it for months no problem, I collect a few weeks worth at a time as its handy to keep a little aside incase of bad weather or heavy rain (Good old Scotland 😅) which can lower salinity and potentially cause polution/fertiliser/pesticides to run off from the land, looking forward to seeing the 6ft using NSW! 😁👍
Ya wee creep 👀
@@colinmccallum6425 hey you! 😂
I'm going to do a similar video standing in the Forth testing my water while catching hypothermia and being attacked by seagulls! 🥶
Hehehe yesss do it!! Sounds amazing 😂🤩🙌🙌
Loved that vid! Thanks for the content
Thank you so much!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
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Very cool video. I saw something that looked like a Banggai Cardinal in the early half of your video. Also I think I saw a monodactylus (we used to know them as mono angels) which typically refers a more brackish environment.
Interesting, if I am correct, as I have only encountered monodactylus in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea previously.
Best wishes.
Oh awesome!! Very cool! 😁🙌🙌 thank you so much!
brill
Kingerrringerannnn!!! ❤️
great video! the surroundings of Albany are so beautiful and especially the sea! do you think you can get us to the great barrier ?! Keep_calm_reef ✌️
Hehehe thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌 absolutely! I’d love to!
Hi Lauren. You have amazing happy personality. I love watching you. Just Q what do about 5he parasites coming from ocean. Do you treat them or heat water.?
Thank you so much!! Nah I don’t treat it, I just put it straight in. Lots of people in aus I know just use it as is with no issues🤩🙌🙌🙌
I wonder if you'd collect water at night would you get more/different microorganisms in the water.
I lived in SA near the leafy sea dragons, I wonder how much difference there would be 🤔🤷♂️🥰 also if u want a lab coat, go to ur local university, they should has them fairly cheap 🥰🐶🦴
Oh that’s super cool! By SA do you mean south Australia? We get leafy sea dragons here too! I’m sure the water would be very similar if in SA! Hehe might have to go find me a lab coat 😜🤩🙌🙌
@@SimpleAquariumsLauren yes south australia, I live about 20mins south of Adelaide, if I drive 1hour south to Rapid bay it’s one of the few places that leafy sea dragons live, an amazing place, lots of ppl scuba dive there, I’ve only ever fished and kayak there tho, I did some spearfishing/snorkelling there but not out where the sea dragons are, one day I’d love to learn to scuba there and see them… we also have (much further away, about 5 hour drive I think different direction) port Lincoln, which has tuna farms I want to swim in, also shark cage diving from that town also! SA is a great place, not very populated, Adelaide is one of the smallest main cities, but it has lots of great places, SA is a huge space tho, but a big percentage of it is red dirt desert 🏜 the coast line around the 3 peninsulas is where most ppl live 🥰
I test lake Ontario by Toronto, and ammonia level was top high for test kit to read properly
Man, all that micro biodiversity in a home tank is what all seasoned reef keepers strive to obtain.
Hehe so good hey! 😁🙌🙌
Nice video 😀 I'm gonna test water in the Baltic Sea, I live like 5 mins away from the sea. I think the parameters won't be good, and it's upsetting 😬
Thank you!! Yeah that will be interesting!! 😁🙌🙌
🤿 cool vid !!
Thank you!! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
Great video! Did you say 470 calcium? I’m surprised Mg was that high.
Yeah it is quite high hey!! Thank you 😁🙌🙌
Looks a lot like Cape Town
What refractometer do you use
I'd be worried about any pollutants not tested for like pesticides from land run off but also pests that are in suspension bringing back to your tank. Yes its natural but your tank is a costly investment so I wouldn't risk it just to save a bit of money, the drive and hassel to collect us less efficient then a good RO unit
Everything attacks you here 😂
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What nitrate tests do you use? It seemed so quick. I use Hannah and it’s so cumbersome
Oh really! I was using the aquaforest in this one, it’s very straight forward and quick👌😁🙌
ICP results would be accurate if you sent one off and had to wait weeks for it to be tested.
In uk / us people send there samples to Europe for testing if they follows the moonshiners method (Ati)
That’s great to know!! Thank you! 🤩🙌🙌🙌
Why don't you try setting up a macroalgae tank with algae that grows around your area.
Hehe I would, but it’s illegal to take anything other than water from the beach 😊🙌🙌
@@SimpleAquariumsLauren then attach a bottle somwhere ore some object and take it once algae starts growing on it, maybe a long process but possible
I’m sending my ICP tests from Sweden to Germany. I think the base elements are fine after shipping but I wouldn’t trust nitrate and phosphate.
Oh that’s super interesting! How long would it be in the mail for? Maybe I should have given it a go 🤔
@@SimpleAquariumsLauren it takes about 7 days to get the result back. So yes give it a go!
More tiktok please
Hehehe ok 🤣😉🙌
Hottest reefer in the 🌎 💯 who agrees haha
That Australia ain't very big !!! Lol
🤣 what?
Wasn't expecting a snorkel session!
lab coat and glasses, yes, a must have
PS. feel so sorry for you having to live out there surrounded by so much ,,,,,,, nature, you poor thing
Haha yeah it’s tough, someone has to do it though 😜🤣
If you dive with an orange filter lens on your future gadget may you share the outcome?
Yeah for sure!! 😁🙌🙌🙌