Where do you get the water you use for water changes? (Poll)

[Jah2707]

Do you use?

1. (Personal) R/O system

2. (personal) other kind of filter system

3. Purchase filtered water

4. Take chance with springfields gross water

 

[Shaar]

I used to buy it, now its cheaper (in the long run) and more convenient to just get an RO/DI system

 

[PS0305]

I, once upon a time, purchased water (too) or got my water from a friend with an RO-DI. The purchased water wasn't quite right. When I was running my own tank on RO-DI and a public tank on Springfield water w/ drops, my tank was just easier to take care of all the way around.

 

[fewells]

people please don't use tap water... It will make your life so much easier to use ro or di water. You can purchase it all over town.

 

[LargeJohn]

Captain Obvious here, but clean water is important for topoffs as well as water changes.

I learned from the school of hard knocks. I started with tap water and fought algae for 6 months (BAD), switched to purchased water from the Wally World machines (BETTER), and finally bought an RO/DI system and rigged up an auto topoff system (BEST)

BTW, when I bought my RO/DI system it came with a TDS meter.

Tap Water (Ozark) 225 ppm
Store RO Water 30 ppm
RO/DI Water 0 ppm

 

[John Kelly]

I started off with tap water also . That was stupid; although my fish, shrimp, crabs, and starfish didn't seem to mine. I got the same system that LargeJohn did (Typhoon III from AirWaterIce) and it is the best. Excellent buy and zero TDS always.