Help me decide if this tank setup is worth it?

[shifty51008]

Ok. I researched that and there are TONS of ro/di suppliers. Can someone tell me what the best brands are? I like to have good equipment. Right now im thinking of buying a buckeye hydro setup but i dont know of their quality.

Buckeye hydro is great quality and haa even great costomer service, you cant go wrong with them

 

[pola0502ds]

That little green light is called a Resilite. It is essentially an inline TDS meter. Various models are available where the indicator light triggers anywhere from 0.25 to 95 ppm tds, depending on the model.

Russ

Do you offer this product?

 

[heathlindner25]

See the below pictures, this is the water treatment system that can possibly come with the system. I don't know much about water systems and maybe someone can explain this and if it's worth it. And I'm really interested in whats above the basement and whats behind the tank. Behind the tank is a valve to hook up a hose and fill up your buckets quickly to mix salt. Above the tank is a faucet for top offs with a flush valve and some sort of meter that turns red or green depending on the status of the water. If the light is green you can use it, if it's red you need to flush until it turns green.

Looking at the equipment in the basement it does not look like a RO setup? Is it DI only?

The blue canister Is a pre- filter ,....the "oxygen " looking one is a large Cabon chamber
These are sold as whole house filtration systems and aren't that great

 

[Buckeye Hydro]

Do you offer this product?

You bet!

For many of the systems used in this hobby, an inline TDS meter is often used instead.

For these indicator lights, here are the triggers points when they switch from green to red for the various models:

Russ

 

[Buckeye Hydro]

The blue canister Is a pre- filter ,....the "oxygen " looking one is a large Cabon chamber
These are sold as whole house filtration systems and aren't that great

I guess that depends upon what you want the system to do.

If you want it to remove sediment and remove chlorine, assuming they are sized appropriately and you use good media, they'll work just fine. For purposes of this hobby however, remember that neither a sediment filter or carbon remove TDS - so the TDS coming out will be similar to the TDS going in. These two filters might make a fine prefilter system for an RO.

This set up is not expensive.

Russ

 

[C.Eymann]

The blue canister Is a pre- filter ,....the "oxygen " looking one is a large Cabon chamber
These are sold as whole house filtration systems and aren't that great

I'm almost positive it's not filled with carbon. it's filled with DI resin. One fish store I worked at had an industrial Rodi machine and a contract with culligan, when the commercial unit broke down, culligan brought out the same setup to use while they fixed the commercial unit.
carbon/sediment filter and a tall tank identical to the one pictured filled with DI resin. If it was just filled with carbon you wouldn't get anywhere close to 0 TDS

 

[Buckeye Hydro]

Yes - anion, cation, or mixed bed DI resin can be put in that same tank.

Russ

 

[pola0502ds]

Looking at the specs of the specs of the tank, what are some items i should upgrade and in what order? Also, what items are not listed that i should consider getting right away? I just plugged the trigger on the neptune apex gold.

 

[tattoosandfrags]

doesnt seem worth it to me where are the coral? you think somebody would spend that much on equipment and at least have some high end or decent coral in his system. to each is own as long as you enjoy it matter of fact im buying a 120 gallon 4 foot tank for 350 its only the tank and stand and its drilled thats a good deal for it i bought my 90 gallon tank and stand for 150 like 3 months ago i guess it depends where you stay on the type of deals you will see.