Distilled water!!!!

[Reef5]

I have to use distilled water because here in London i cant find any at all. I will be mixing it with kents salt. Will this be ok?
Thanks
Sean

 

[Rivenjim]

yes if you cant find RO water. distilled will do the only thing is it costs more$.

 

[rockindacheeks]

wouldnt distilled water be better than RO?

 

[Rivenjim]

from what i hear yes. but for the price it does not seem worth it

 

[snslarison]

I used distilled only on my first 10g a few years back. I had no undesirable algea at all. That is the way to go but like you said, not really cost effective.

 

[fishresponse]

ultra violet light is used to make the water "distilled". If you want to add a uv light on your RO/DI unit then you would have distilled water. IMO if you have a sufficient RO/DI unit and your TDS are in check then why bother.

 

[itw419]

actually most distilled water is steamed. i just bought some today and it says steam distilled

 

[flyingphish]

bo and luke dukes best moonshine comes straight from old uncle jesse's UV sterilizer...best in hazard county!!!

 

[ika]

Distilled water is pure H2O, zero TDS.
My RO/DI with new media is about 2~3 TDS and eventually goes up to 24~25 TDS. My tap water is 196~210 TDS.

 

[Hekim]

UV treats for biological agents (germs, bacteria etc) it does nothing to remove minerals or solids from water, UV sterilization and distillation are very different treatments.

 

[BCreefmaker]

bo and luke dukes best moonshine comes straight from old uncle jesse's UV sterilizer...best in hazard county!!!

hahaha nothing beats chemistry humor , but im pretty shure the basic definition of distilled water was that its been boiled...uv is just a cheap way to steralize water to destroy parasites, bacteria, and anything else really small ..... it would cost so much more to use uv to break down all the elements in water....boiling it is cheaper in the end

 

[jdw]

My understanding is that distilled water is steamed to its purifying state, but is steamed in copper pipes, which may pose a threat. That is what the LFS told me. If you use it, add a little Kallawasser to the top off water in the jug or bottle. this will help stabalize your pH and replenish the calcium

 

[SnowboardKid26]

Most distilled water now a days IS RO/DI water. And if you do find steam distilled (Wal-Mart with purple lable) it might be 0 TDS, but boiling water doesn't remove phosphates, or other solubal substances, and the copper thing that JDW mentioned.

 

[BCreefmaker]

Most distilled water now a days IS RO/DI water. And if you do find steam distilled (Wal-Mart with purple lable) it might be 0 TDS, but boiling water doesn't remove phosphates, or other solubal substances, and the copper thing that JDW mentioned.

first of all you have to get it from a good distributor, wal-mart being probbably the worst possibly choice, secondly all distilled water is also run throught a carbon prefilter just like RO/DI, so i have no idea what you are talking about, if you have a good source of distilled water its technically better then RO/DI is, its just more expensive. you are right on one part tho, if they have copper pipes or something like that it will conaminate the water, but there are thousands of compounds that wont disolve in water and wont melt.... it just depends if you get your water from where ever wal-mart gets thier water this month, or a proper distillery.