reefer5060
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I move from sxhool to home so often that an rodi would be to hard to hook up ect. so i get alot of algae hair and buble but however i get even more diatoms than anything.
RO Water???
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Angela Short
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I was a tap water girl for almost 2 years with no visiable problems. I had never had any algae to talk about other than the film on the glass we all get. I never thought nothing of it and then my stuff slowley started dieing. Nothing ever really grew either. Stuff just survived and shown little growth. I am very anal about my tank so when sudden deaths of corals I had had for 1-2 years started happening more than an occasional loss I started checking things out.
My phoshates were through the roof! Beyond blue on the color chart, way past the "retards coral growth" level. I decided replacing compleat coral colonies would cost a lot more in the end than a RODI so I got the cheapo from ebay. I did massive water changes to dilute the phoshates and other tap water nasties over the coarse of a month. 3x a week of 25-30 gallons a pop in the 80 for 2 weeks straight and then slowed down to 1x a week.
My params are in check now and amazingly my hairy mili was hairy for once! All the corals showed amazing improvement with polyp extension and the growth rate greatly improved on all my corals but most noticed was the milli. It started shooting new branches overnight it seemed. I had had this coral for about a year with very slow growth and since the rodi (and new bulbs) it is crazy fast growing. It has went from a nice big "frag" size to as big as we choped up from AC last night in about 8 months. (real big for those not at the meeting!)
But to be fair, I added new 10,000k XM's about 3 months after the RO so that gave everything a much needed burst of energy from the real old 14K's I was running. I noticed a huge improvement with just the water and a unbelivable improvement with good water and new bulbs.
So basically its the differance in a "nice" tank like I had for 2 years to a "unbelivable" tank like mine has turned into the last 6 months or so. I am not saying that bragging at all but what I do have in my tank has amazed me at how much healthier it is. Even my hubby who knows nothing about my tank has commented on the RO and/or lights has made a amazing differance. I kept telling him all this stuff will grow and fill in someday and it was never happening till lately. Now I am fragging stuff just to keep it from touching.
Enouph of my 2 cents worth.........or is that a $1.50 worth?
You know if I post its gonna be a LONG one!! :lol:
My phoshates were through the roof! Beyond blue on the color chart, way past the "retards coral growth" level. I decided replacing compleat coral colonies would cost a lot more in the end than a RODI so I got the cheapo from ebay. I did massive water changes to dilute the phoshates and other tap water nasties over the coarse of a month. 3x a week of 25-30 gallons a pop in the 80 for 2 weeks straight and then slowed down to 1x a week.
My params are in check now and amazingly my hairy mili was hairy for once! All the corals showed amazing improvement with polyp extension and the growth rate greatly improved on all my corals but most noticed was the milli. It started shooting new branches overnight it seemed. I had had this coral for about a year with very slow growth and since the rodi (and new bulbs) it is crazy fast growing. It has went from a nice big "frag" size to as big as we choped up from AC last night in about 8 months. (real big for those not at the meeting!)
But to be fair, I added new 10,000k XM's about 3 months after the RO so that gave everything a much needed burst of energy from the real old 14K's I was running. I noticed a huge improvement with just the water and a unbelivable improvement with good water and new bulbs.
So basically its the differance in a "nice" tank like I had for 2 years to a "unbelivable" tank like mine has turned into the last 6 months or so. I am not saying that bragging at all but what I do have in my tank has amazed me at how much healthier it is. Even my hubby who knows nothing about my tank has commented on the RO and/or lights has made a amazing differance. I kept telling him all this stuff will grow and fill in someday and it was never happening till lately. Now I am fragging stuff just to keep it from touching.
Enouph of my 2 cents worth.........or is that a $1.50 worth?
You know if I post its gonna be a LONG one!! :lol:
RevRoy
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I use the culigan RODI water from Walmart only 33 cent a gal. It was way to much work when I had the big tank. I would go and buy 20 gal at a time. but now with the nano it's not that much work only 3 gal a week so not much cost and or work to cary one 5 gal jug in when we do our shopping.
crumbletop
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I use RO/DI for many of the reasons listed. There are phosphates and other disolved solids in the tap water that I didn't want getting into my tank.
crumbletop
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You should look into whether or not you can use some water from a lab while at school. Your tank is small so your water needs shouldn't be too high.
KAiNE
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I'm in LaVergne and see 250-310 tds. Every now and then it will fall under that range but not often.
On another note, awhile back in LaVergne there was an issue were the water treatment plant allowed a chemical to be flushed through. I cant remember the name of it but it actually passed through my RO/DI turning my lines pink. The chemical in question has actually been discussed in the chemistry forum as a method of filtration, its an oxidizer.
IMO - not using RO/DI is a mistake.
Pickupman66
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Lavergne has had a Turbidity issue as of late. I am not 100% sure what that meants but something like it causes crap disolving or floating the water. you could literally take a glass of water from teh tap and see little specs floating in it and they would settle on teh bottom. and it put this in my tank. UGH. no wonder, but since moving to Mboro, I got my rodi and the tank looks GREAT
