ghostrida3
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has ur tank ever had any real effect on ur waterbill?
water bill?
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poppin_fresh
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An RO that is used for heavy top offs and W/C might raise the bill a little, especially if its a crappy unit with a high waste/good ratio.
ghostrida3
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the thing is i share a house w/ a family of 6. the guy i rent from is my best friend and there his cousins. he owns the house. ime there probably all of 30hrs a week, they are saying because of my 125 gal i should py half the water bill. this is hilarious. i probably use about 20 gallons a week at the most. the bill is 80 they want me to py 40 no way thats going to happen.. a couple of months ago their bad kids spray painted my car and they havent made any attempts to rslv. i just wanted to run this buy u to see if ime crazyy, i had a house by myslf w/ an aquarium and my water bill was never over 30$ this is w/ showers and all.
ghostrida3
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only thing i can think of is maybe they think i have water hooked up to the tank or something. u know how people who have never had a reef tank get intimidated by the equipment. what 30 gallons a month in most states like 3$ or something on the water bill? ime curious?
PRINCE_NAMOR
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I live in Marietta. No way is a 120 gallon affecting the water bill that much........
MarineFishGuy
Capn Jack Sparrow
http://www.tampagov.net/dept_water/conservation_education/Customers/Water_use_calculator.asp
No way is your tank adding $40/month to the water bill. My total bill is only $18/month and I have a 75g tank w110g sump. (2 people in an apartment wo dishwasher)
See the link above for a water use calculator.
If you have an RO/DI filter with a rejection rate of 95%. To produce 20 gallons, you are using a total of 400 gallons a month.
That is equivalent to an 80 minute shower with a normal shower head over a months time.
Or put another way, it is the same water consumption as one person taking a 2.5 minute shower each day. Even if you use 40 gallons a month, that is only a 5 minute shower per day.
Tell em to pound reef sand.
HTH,
Ken
No way is your tank adding $40/month to the water bill. My total bill is only $18/month and I have a 75g tank w110g sump. (2 people in an apartment wo dishwasher)
See the link above for a water use calculator.
If you have an RO/DI filter with a rejection rate of 95%. To produce 20 gallons, you are using a total of 400 gallons a month.
That is equivalent to an 80 minute shower with a normal shower head over a months time.
Or put another way, it is the same water consumption as one person taking a 2.5 minute shower each day. Even if you use 40 gallons a month, that is only a 5 minute shower per day.
Tell em to pound reef sand.
HTH,
Ken
ghostrida3
Member
thanks guys i had to run it by u to make sure i wasnt insane.. i should be moving shortly. ahh my own place again i cant wait.
MarineFishGuy
Capn Jack Sparrow
I produce about 1 gallon of RODI water for every 6 gallons of waste water or about 84% rejection. Although it has been a long time since I tested this so it may have changed.
I used 95% since I don't know what unit he has and I wanted to consider "worst case" scenarios.
Either way, the Water Use Calculator is very insightful in determining what activites contribute the most to the water bill.
While the RODI filter may increase the bill by $5-10/month, $40 is excessive for sure when considering normal topoffs/water changes on a 120g tank.
I used 95% since I don't know what unit he has and I wanted to consider "worst case" scenarios.
Either way, the Water Use Calculator is very insightful in determining what activites contribute the most to the water bill.
While the RODI filter may increase the bill by $5-10/month, $40 is excessive for sure when considering normal topoffs/water changes on a 120g tank.
p4ck37p1mp
Premium Member
I'm in Acworth not far from Marietta, and my TDS going into my RO/DI is 30ppm, so you aren't wasting much water if your water is similar to mine. You waste more water in the shower than your tank is using, unless you do 50% water changes everyday. =P
RichConley
New member
Thats not rejection rate. Rejection rate is something totally different. NO ONE has a 20-1 waste
roduct ratio. You're 6-1 is well outside the normal range of 2-4:1Water is EXTREMELY cheap. I bet your tank isnt adding more than $1 a month.
Remember, a normal shower is 5g/min. So a 15 minute shower every day is 2200 gallons a month. You're using how much for your tank? 100?
Nano Chris
Active member
Not to worried about our water bill, we use (what the water bill says about 30,000 gallons which is about $66 or so every 6 months (if i recall. Don't know how we use that much... Its the electricity we have to worry about, where i live they raised ours by 50%!
Even with 30 tanks in our house largest a 180 down to a 10gal. Our water bill is only $32. Right now with the water restrictions down here we go to LFS now for RO water (instead of doing our own) for SW tanks, planted tank and top off water for FW tanks (in between cleanings)... not paying $500 fine for going over 7800 gal per month..
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