Ridiculous Hobby Product Web Site of the Day: Nutri Seawater

Randy Holmes-Farley · Nov 12, 2015

http://www.nutriseawater.com/

Seriously?

Take a look at the composition, along with the claim that it has a specific gravity of 1.027 and has elements in their natural concentration and is unchanged by them.

2000 ppm Mg
29,000 ppm chloride
16,000 ppm sodium

Forget everything else, those add up to more than 47,000 ppm (47 ppt) all by themselves.

Am I misunderstanding somehow?

Jlobes · Nov 12, 2015

LOL....

cope413 · Nov 12, 2015

My favorite part is "100% natural" followed immediately by "Fortified with QX-23 Enriched"

And then further down "this product is in it's natural state we did not alter it"

Grammar aside (its not it's), it's either 100% natural or it's not.

Jlobes · Nov 12, 2015

cope413 said:
My favorite part is "100% natural" followed immediately by "Fortified with QX-23 Enriched"

And then further down "this product is in it's natural state we did not alter it"

Grammar aside (its not it's), it's either 100% natural or it's not.

totally! and you know, the ocean has that PLANKTONIC trademarked bacteria too!

Cory · Nov 12, 2015

Do you think thats a typo or miscalculation randy?

Its good to use nsw but not when they alter it so much, its not natural anymore.

Nomadic1 · Nov 12, 2015

Well, seeing that's "all they use" on Tanked...need I say more?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Nov 12, 2015

Cory said:
Do you think thats a typo or miscalculation randy?

Its good to use nsw but not when they alter it so much, its not natural anymore.

Maybe they did an analysis and did not correct properly for some sort of dilution step. I can't believe it really matches that description.

Hard to believe it could be a typo when they are all off, but they are not all off by the same amount, so I really don't know what is going on.

cope413 · Nov 12, 2015

I checked out their patent.
http://www.google.com/patents/US6376229

They list what they add to the NSW in the charts

NanaReefer · Nov 13, 2015

It doesn't say ppm. Just an observation [emoji2]

Jlobes · Nov 13, 2015

NanaReefer said:
It doesn't say ppm. Just an observation [emoji2]

those PPMs are from the micrograms per liter, the measurement listed on the site.

RMS18 · Nov 13, 2015

That's the water those guys on that show "Tanked" use. They make sure to let you know what water they use. They state since they use that water, live sand and their version of a bacteria in a bottle they are able to add fish right away.

Jlobes · Nov 13, 2015

Bmwm235i said:
That's the water those guys on that show "Tanked" use. They make sure to let you know what water they use. They state since they use that water, live sand and their version of a bacteria in a bottle they are able to add fish right away.

yeah, and we all know how well their tank do, after they leave...they TANK! guess thats how they got the name.

RMS18 · Nov 13, 2015

Jlobes said:
yeah, and we all know how well their tank do, after they leave!!!

Well I'm sure that's only because of the local companies in the area that are hired to maintain the tanks. [emoji6]

NanaReefer · Nov 13, 2015

I don't believe this is a trash "Tanked" thread. Let's keep it on topic ok.

Jlobes · Nov 13, 2015

NanaReefer said:
I don't believe this is a trash "Tanked" thread. Let's keep it on topic ok.

nobody is "trashing" tanked, and that show came up as a result of this topic, specifically because this is the ONLY water they use(apparently, ive only seen the show a handful of times).

Paul B · Nov 13, 2015

I get it from here and I sell it real cheap. Just meet me there with a bucket and I will sell you all you want and it is guaranteed to have everything in it that "real" salt water has in the correct proportions. At this time of the year I also pre chill it for you.

GainesvilleReef · Nov 13, 2015

Paul B said:
I get it from here and I sell it real cheap. Just meet me there with a bucket and I will sell you all you want and it is guaranteed to have everything in it that "real" salt water has in the correct proportions. At this time of the year I also pre chill it for you.

Sorry but they have already patented natural seawater. U.S. PATENT #6,376,229. You will owe them a royalty.

zemuss · Nov 13, 2015

If you get it from the shore good luck to you. Unless you know something I don't but wouldn't that be filled with stuff we don't want in the tank? Maybe go out further?