Revers osmosa in Marine aquarium

[ReefFresh]

Hi guys
Some guy told me that i shouldn't use reverse osmosa water in my marine aquarium since alot of healthy minerals will be missing especially when i am using red see blue salt.

What do you think?

 

[kdc527]

Not to sure I would go with that suggestion. An to system is one of the first things I got for my tank. It removes all the bad stuff in the water and gives you just pure water.salt mix will give you all the things you need calcium and such.

 

[ReefFresh]

Thats what i thought but his approach was that the fish will lack the minerals and so on.. do i need to pick a specific salt if using osmosa water?

 

[rsain]

Revers osmosa in Marine aquarium

Long story short:

You need Reverse Osmosis/Deionized water to mix salt and to top off your tank.

Medium version:

RO/DI unit should be one of your first purchases.

Some will use regular tap water with some additives to remove trace chlorine. It's a risk most of us don't take.

But you don't know what's in that water. And worse yet, when water evaporates from your tank all those minerals will remain. Over time that builds up.

See the STICKY post on SETTING UP. All your questions are answered there.

-ryan

 

[gone fishin]

Hi guys
Some guy told me that i shouldn't use reverse osmosa water in my marine aquarium since alot of healthy minerals will be missing especially when i am using red see blue salt.

What do you think?

I personally would not listen to his advice. RO/DI is a must have IMO. Your salt mix will have everything in it.

Like Ryan pointed out there will eventually be build up of minerals, metals and whatever else is left in the tap water.

 

[Sk8r]

quite wrong.
Your marine salt mix contains the minerals in exact proportions your tank needs. Read the label.

 

[ReefFresh]

Thanks guys

 

[jrp1588]

He's probably thinking of fresh water tanks. If you use RO/DI on fresh without any additives, you'll run into trouble. The first thing that comes to mind is a complete lack of pH buffering. You'd probably get swings all over the place in a fresh system, and perhaps deficiencies in the fish.

It's absolutely recommended in a salt tank to use RO/DI. Go tell 'some guy' that 'some other guy' says he has no idea what he's talking about. haha