EPA Reefs Reefers

[alton]

The chemical fertilizer you add to your lawns is alot worse than saltwater. I dump my saltwater right out my front door on my St. Augustine grass. I don't have any dead spots and to most peoples amazement I don't fertilize my grass. And if it wasn't for Aquarist, the reefs in the world would probably be gone already. Although we think Reef fish and Corals are pretty you can't eat them! People have to eat. Fertilizers and Erosion are killing the Reefs. Farming the Reefs to help support small countries will do more to save the worlds Reefs, more than anything else. (Man I am starting to sound like Gary I better stop)

[seamonkey2]

everything now a days is killing all of us, from the food we eat to s... we take LOL, so............. live happy, make friends and love your family, we all will die one day.

seamonkey

[GaryP]

We used about 40,000 lb. of carbon every couple of months. I had to make the rounds of a few LFS to buy that much!

I just want to know if you can get that job back. If so I'll be happy to keep stocked up on Black Diamond for ya ;) .

Actually I contracted it out a company that recyled the carbon. We used 40 cubic yard containers of carbon to hook up to our air vent system so that in case of an emergency shutdown benzene would be scrubbed from the exhaust gas. Regulations required that there be a back up system so we actually had two of these 40 yard containers hooked up in series so that if there was a break through of the first one, the second one would catch it. I also had some "smaller" 1000 and 2000 lb. containers we used to vent equipment for maintenance work. All of this carbon was recycled. When it was spent, it was sent to a plant in Arizona where they baked it and cooked off the organics, similar to the way people reuse carbon by baking it in an oven. It was basically the same pellatized carbon that we use in aquariums and was made from coconut shell except its pore size was better suited for vapor phase instead of the larger pore size we use for water phase. I paid around a $1/lb. for it but that included transportation, labor and the recycling cost. It was all done on a turn key basis. That was a lot cheaper than the fine we would have gotten if we had an accidental release of benzene. Anything more than 10 lb. of benzene release was considered a reportable event. If we had an emergency shutdown that amount would be released in 8 minutes. We had drills with guys flying through the plant on bicycles to get to the carbon units in time to get the valves opened within 8 minutes to prevent a reportable release of benzene.

[gjuarez]

So if I take my urine sample and use a hydrometer I can measure my sallinty. Will that affect my body's ph? Did you know that if your body's ph is alkaline you can't get cancer.

[mathias]

i read on a nother forum that in europe mostly germany they where trying to ban water changes for saltwater tanks if not ban regulate.....

[GaryP]

i read on a nother forum that in europe mostly germany they where trying to ban water changes for saltwater tanks if not ban regulate.....

That's silly.... Especially if you calculate the percentage of total waste water that water changes account for in terms of the total amount of waste water produced. Chemically its not much different from urine.

[Henry]

I thought toliets were 1gpf. I guess we will have to start recycling our water.

[GaryP]

The new ones are 2.5 gpf. Urinals are 1 gpf. The old toilets were 5 gpf.

[Reef69]

i read on a nother forum that in europe mostly germany they where trying to ban water changes for saltwater tanks if not ban regulate.....

Those silly germans..LOL