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blackz151

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I'm getting ready to finally fill my tank. Need to find a place to get about 120 gallons give or take. I was going to use all fish being they were walking distance from the house but that's not going to work. Any other close places? I'm going to have to make a few trips and don't want to trek out to All pets
 
Stay away from allfish, their RO has not been up to par. If you do go there, take your tds meter for a quick test.

Any other fish store you go to should have no problem sticking their tds meter on it for you.
 
Blue Seas on University down in Plantation has RO at 0 TDS. Shouldn't have to state that but I got water from many of the nearby LFS and none were at or close to 0.
 
Seems like a lot of work and $$$

Do you have an ro filter ?
What do plan to do for top off water ?

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#1 Buy bucket of salt

Buy/borrow an ro filter if you really insist on ro for new set up
But your going to need one you will spend way more $$ with out it

Mix with tap water save a lot of $$ your going to go threw
A cycle one way or the other just never do it again tap water
For initial fill up only did it for years did it on my current tank
A lot of people do they just might not admit it
 
Why don't you just get some seawater delivered. Will probably be cheaper when all said and done and a hell of a lot more convenient.
 
What rovster said, or there is a guy on this forum selling a 25gpd ro rig for fifty bucks
 
I have enough saltwater on hand if you need ....do u have a truck I also have a 55 barrel u can use ....I'm in sunrise $50 its nsw
 
Yea the more I think about it its kind of pointless. I'm going to look into and ro/di unit. Going to need in it the long run anyway. Thanks for talking me out of a horrible idea lol.
 
You will need an RODI and water change setup in the future for sure.....if you want to start your system up let me know I'm home all day on vacation .....IMO get your system up and cycling and then take your time and price out best options to get your RODI unit with water change station set up ...let me know I have more than enough on hand to get you started..
 
Ludwigia73 said:
Stay away from allfish, their RO has not been up to par. If you do go there, take your tds meter for a quick test.
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AllFish has been closed for awhile.

Also, it was not RO/DI, it was just RO (Carbon, sediment filter, RO membrane). There was no DI stage.
 
Looks like I lucked out and a friend of mine is moving and is lending me is 75gpd. Now hopefully he will forget I have it. Thanks for eveyone's help! Cant wait to get this thing running
 
stevejrnc said:
Seems like a lot of work and $$$



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Mix with tap water save a lot of $$ your going to go threw
A cycle one way or the other just never do it again tap water
For initial fill up only did it for years did it on my current tank
A lot of people do they just might not admit it
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Whatever you do, do not use tap water straight. Why go to the trouble of setting up a reef, and then using stuff that's not good for a fresh start. Tap water has lots of stuff that will absorb into your rock until the levels stabilize, then leech back out when you replace it with clean seawater or salt mix. DONT DO IT!!!
 
Ludwigia73 said:
Whatever you do, do not use tap water straight. Why go to the trouble of setting up a reef, and then using stuff that's not good for a fresh start. Tap water has lots of stuff that will absorb into your rock until the levels stabilize, then leech back out when you replace it with clean seawater or salt mix. DONT DO IT!!!
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So the 100's of successfull reefs I've set up personally and
And as buisness back in North Carolina ( with much worst tap then
In south florida )

With out a single tank failure or issue I'm must have just been
Lucky then
 
stevejrnc said:
So the 100's of successfull reefs I've set up personally and
And as buisness back in North Carolina ( with much worst tap then
In south florida )

With out a single tank failure or issue I'm must have just been
Lucky then
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Call it whatever you like but there is no such thing as luck in this hobby....its just plain BAD advise to recommend to a new aquarist to just put plain TAP water into their DT with chloramines/chlorine, Lead, Arsenic, Germs, Copper, Disinfection by products, Iron, Rocket Fuel, Atrazine, Fluoride, Nitrates, Radiation, Organic chemicals, Inorganic chemicals, Microbes, Radium-226, Radium-228, Alpha particle activity (excl radon and uranium), Chloroform, Bromodichloromethane, Dibromoethane, Bromoform, Haloacetic acids (HAAs) which include Dichloroacetic acid, Trichloroacetic acid, Monochloro acid, Monobromo acid, and Dibromo acid ................shall we go on LMAO ....its just plain laziness/cheep when you have everything available at your fingertips to do it correctly and you don't.......good luck in this hobby if you are too cheep to use RODI/Salt Mix or NSW for your setup......we will just leave it at that....bottom line in this hobby do it correct the first time, if your starting out this hobby skimping and taking unnecessary risky shortcuts and being cheep you need to pick a new hobby....

Makes you not even want to drink it or use it on anything your going to ingest doesn't it LMAO

Here is a link where you can put in your zip code and it will tell you everything in your cities past http://www.ewg.org/tap-water/whatsinyourwater/?zip5=33351&search=&x=Go
 
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