Ro Di

Hey, just to let you know the canopy is ready for you, but i use John's RODI system that he builds, they are great and for hte price they are definetly worth it. great thing about it is that you can customize them pretty easily and i know for a fact that you can adjust it to make to valves, one for drinking and one for hte tank.
 
lol, sorry, john is a lfs owner, he owns FAOIS (Fish and Other Ichthy Stuff) it's located on the boarder of oldsmar and tampa. a good drive from where im at, but it's worth it. the address is on the LFS part on our club website. I suggest calling him to confirm any directions cause the store can be difficult to find for the first time.
 
Oh, I've been to FAOIS. I bought the 300lbs of aragonite, I've used to make GARF rock from him. I just didn't know that "John" was the guy I was talking to. It's nice to know that he's that good, because I was really impressed with the store and his stuff.
Mike
 
mattliu,

You forgot J-killa of the Furious Nasties, baserock man, algaepad dude, and my favorite Emperor of the Praetorian Guard. ;)
 
Re: Ro Di

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8540834#post8540834 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by boydx6
Looking for info for RO/DI units, What are the best buy for the money. I would like to be able to use for drinking water as well as the aquarium. I want to be able to turn off the DI easily.

Anyone used these? http://www.thefilterguys.biz/index.htm

What about chloramine filters?
Stephen - the RO/DI filter that everyone's talking about from John (FAOIS) is the one you saw at my house;)
 
I just recently researched and bought my first RODI unit and here's my experience:

Other than going local (John) - thefilterguyz, Buckeye Supply, Air Water Ice, SpectraPure(best but expensive), and Purely H20 (Orlando) are considered the popular reputable ones from everything I've read. Ebay ones look cheaper but seem to give you smaller DI cartridges and the RO cartridges take out less stuff (maybe enough but less) making it not so great a deal. There doesn't seem to be a consensus on whether 2 plain (typical) carbon blocks will remove chloramine or not BUT.. the best way to remove chloramine seems to be to use CATALYTIC granular activated carbon (specially treated granular carbon), followed by another carbon block. (also there's a sediment before and a RO and DI after those carbon blocks making it 5 stages).

I was either going to get the chloramine ones from filterguyz or Buckeye but decided on buckeye just because all the canisters and pressure gage were on a single frame and I can easily take it out and hook up to my kitchen sink faucet. It's worked well but I've noticed the RO water has a bit of an aftertaste so I pour it though some carbon before storing. You can add a pressurized tank and faucet to any system to make it easy to use for drinking water or just fill up a 5 gallon jug of RO water like I do.
 
Don Lino...Check out www.garf.org Look for agagocrete in the how to pages. It's there home brew DIY rock. I'm going to use about 450 lbs in my 390 gallon. I have over 300 lbs curing in my pool.
Mike
 
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