ocean water/water spoiling

Gorthaur · Post by **Gorthaur** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:05 pm

kcgirl81, where is the beach you went to, and is it near a city or heavily trafficked?
I think that at the very least the water should be boiled before giving it to the crabs to kill most of the bacteria.
Obviously, land hermits in the wild regularly drink plain sea water, but where they live this water is relatively unpolluted. Their resistance to many toxins is low at best (i.e. chlorine), so in modern times they have taken to living in more isolated areas.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:46 am

LOL at the twinkies comment.

Yeah, if it was near some heavily populated beach, I'd atleast boil it...

Hermies do drink seawater, but like Goarthur said, it's not as polluted in the smaller island countries most Hermies are from, as it is in the US.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:17 am

Chocolate with bugs in it? That's downright depressing!

The beach I went to was the Isle of Palms off the coast of Charleston, SC. It was a private beach, so not tons of people. Also, what made me think of bringing the sea water home in the first place was that I found several marine hermit crabs in the tide pools as we were walking along the beach. There were also other types of crabs, fish, starfish, all sorts of things living in there. And there were lots of holes in the sand in the beach that looked like they could be crab holes. So I don't know about the water quality, but it seemed that the crab population there was doing just fine.

If I boil the seawater, won't that concentrate the amount of salt and minerals that are in it? And is that a bad thing?