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o2addict

Aquarium Advice Newbie
Joined
Jun 17, 2004
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Bahamas
I live about 30ft from the Ocean in the Bahamas. I am looking at pumping water from the ocean in to my tank. The water has no polution, in fact the fish I will be keeping will be caught from where the pipe inlet will be!!!

What I need to know is what flowrate I should use, and also what filtration I should use to make sure the water is actually clear!!!

Also is there an increased risk of getting an overgrowth of Algae with this method? Should I run the water through UV to kill everything? Ideally I want to keep the plankton etc. so I can support invertibrates.

Thanks
 
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