KeepOnReefin
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Anyone know of a website that sells one for a good price. I seem to be having troubles finding one. Thanks. Happy Reefin!
AquaSafe RO/DI system
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PrivateJoker64
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Did you check eBay? That's where I got mine.
AZDesertRat
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Save your money and buy a much better one. Lots of RC sponsors sell much better units for only slightly more. You will not be happy with that one.
aquarius77
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I just left the filter guys website and i was very impressed: http://thefilterguys.biz/index.htm
RicksReefs
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I've been quite happy with my aquasafe unit for a few years now.
exoticaquatix
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ive had mine for a few years now and i am also happy with it. only recently i have noticed algae, i think its time for a new membrane. i have not had another, more expensive unit tho so i may be missing out on something. sorry, no TDS info, just a algae free tank for a year and a half.
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Dr.FuManchu
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Aquasafe rocks. Great RO/DI unit and great cust service. I have been using mine for 2 years without a single problem. Mine was like $115 shipped (75 gal per day model).
PrivateJoker64
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Never had any probs with mine either.
AZDesertRat
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If all of you had a better unit to compare it to you would change your tune. If all you have ever know is that then you praise it, but once you try a Spectrapure, AWI Typhoon III, Purely Optima or others you would soon see the difference. There is no true comparison. The filters are a joke, who uses granular activated carbon in a reef quality RO/DI ? No one in their right mind. They are cheap for a reason.
cristhiam
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It works, I'll be using other filters than the ones they sell now that it's time to change, but I never had problems with the unit. If they were that bad they wouldn't be selling a lot of units. It's been 8 months now and I'm getting a little of HA and cyano but it could be something else too.
Mike de Leon
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When one has "0" TDS reading what else are you looking for?
I have had mine for two and half years. Still getting "0" TDS reading...
One can use the extra cash on frags!!!
AZDesertRat
In Memoriam
Read the article on 0 TDS in the Spectrapure Sponsors forum.
If Aquasafe and Filter Direct among others really wanted to sell reef quality RO/DI systems they would use beter quality filters and a true DI system and charge $10 more as that is about all it would cost them. They don't give a diddly about you or your tanks and just are out to make a buck passing off low quality drinking water systems as a high quality filter which they are far from being.
If Aquasafe and Filter Direct among others really wanted to sell reef quality RO/DI systems they would use beter quality filters and a true DI system and charge $10 more as that is about all it would cost them. They don't give a diddly about you or your tanks and just are out to make a buck passing off low quality drinking water systems as a high quality filter which they are far from being.
like mike says if TDS are 0 and the tank is doing good, does it matter?
AZDesertRat
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Like I said read the article. If DI lasts half as long then it not a good value. My Tap is over 800, RO only is 7.7 and normal semiconductor grade resin lasts 150 gallons. If I had a crap membrane which produce poorer quality water then my DI would not have lasted that long. For every 2% increase in membrane efficiency you double the life of DI resin. Thats an important thing to remember. GE Water, Applied and the imports won't deliver the same quality as a 75 GPD Dow membrane. They will not last as long either with garbage prefilters and granular carbon in front of them either. Granular carbon has a capacity of about 200 gallons of chlorine at a 1 ppm residual. A 0.5 micron carbon block is rated at 20,000 gallons, quite a difference. Most prefilters no matter what micron rating are nominal rated and not absolute rated which makes a huge difference, again read on the Spectrapure forum what the differences are. Again the cheap RO/DI s are not what they claim to be.
cristhiam
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Sorry I still don't get it, when my TDS are increasing I'll change the filter so far I have not seen it go up but I know it's time to change them, now my di still green, some brown parts but it doen't need change yet. I've gone throug a lot of water so far 20G water change every 2 to 3 weeks + 18G of top off water maybe 1 to 1 1/2 weeks. I got the unit around March actually it's 9 months. So far so good. We are way off of topic now I think. Just lets stop there.
