Cleanliness is next to tankliness

[thatguy559]

Hot water opens pores

 

[lvsuckerfish]

wash warm to hot water NO NO NO soap of any kind and dive in for me. and same in reverse after I am done in the tank,

 

[Ichthys]

Still looking for an answer to this one

While we are talking about water, I don’t imagine many of you have full house RODI's. I read in another forum on RF about why people use regular tap water to rinse off items when such care is taken to only use RODI in tank. There is something I do not quite understand and am hoping for some opinions.
If we rinse in tap water, whether it is our arms, hands, tools, gloves, filter socks, whatever... Do the negative components of tap water go away once the item dries? I guess we are talking about chlorine, phosphates, and metals or whatever else may be in the tap water. I am pretty sure chlorine evaporates when you let the item dry, but what about phosphate? Does it disappear when the item air dries or does it just solidify like salt would and then go back into solution when the item is introduced in the tank? If that is the case, would rinsing your item in RODI water after washing it in tap water help dissipate the phosphate?
Ichthys

I am curious because after water change and maint i rinse all my buckets, pumps, and other stuff in tap water and then let them air dry...

 

[mfinn]

It's not like your tap water is full of poison.
Rinsing your equipment, hands etc. off in tap water is just fine.