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Unread 01/07/2013, 11:08 PM   #14
bertoni
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Originally Posted by rishma View Post
Most stainless intended for water or food service is type 316. As I mentioned above, this will perform reasonably well in most reef applications.
Unfortunately, the toxicity levels for metals can be very low, in the ppb range for zinc and copper, so without any way of quantifying "reasonably well", I would be careful about using such types of metal in a reef tank.


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