RO Water???
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Mobikob
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I use only RODI. I use it because I dont like to have to clean my glass all the time. I just scrape the purple stuff off once it becomes annoying.
Someone once told me, "You can only expect to get out of your tank what you put in." I said "sounds good to me", and have used only RODI ever since.
Mobi
Someone once told me, "You can only expect to get out of your tank what you put in." I said "sounds good to me", and have used only RODI ever since.
Mobi
Pickupman66
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I now have RODI water exclusively. I didnt till april. used tap water. since then, I have noticed a big difference in my tnak. I scrub the glass less often, have ZERO cyano, and overall, the tank looks much more pristine. I live in rutherford county with very hard water. it registers 161 on my tds at times. Tons of metals, chlorine, phosphates in it..
TitansFan
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I dunno.. using tap water scares me. I have a ro/di and only put filtered water in my tank. Last I checked my tap water is pretty high in phosphates. I run a phosphate filter packed with rowaphos. It would seem counter-productive of me to use tap water. Some things work for some and doesnt for others.
Mobikob
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For me there is no other source for tank water, not even in an emergency.
I got away with using Distilled water for years, but with only average results.
After going to RODI, I have had Great sucess. no more Diatom blooms, phosphate sponges, Phosphate spikes and no more Cyano. I did have some hitchhiker nusiance algae, and even bubble algae, but my crabs made short work of that.
basically it wont grow in my tank. And if I introduce it, it will either wither, or be eaten.
Without invasive algaes, diatoms, and phosphate removing products there is much more opportunity for your corals to thrive. Why not use RODI? and really get things going.
Mobi
DMBillies
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All of the places I've lived since I started in the hobby had decent amounts of copper in the water. When I first started I had no idea that I had to worry about the water (always used tap for fresh) and as a result I had problems with losing inverts for the first month or so. Since then, I've realized that there are so many things in the water that could make life much more difficult.
TitansFan
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yeah my water is 130tds. Not too bad but who only knows what that 130 "total dissolved solids" are?
http://www.tdsmeter.com/abouttds.html <- good reading
http://www.tdsmeter.com/abouttds.html <- good reading
