R/O water question
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You have a 5stage unit what are your stages? IMO if you have the ability to use DI I would as no ro unit will give you 0TDS water that DI is crucial to get the rest of the TDS out of your water . So yes I would use it .
Do you have to ?No . I used plain ro water in my reefs for 3 years before I broke down and bought a killer RO/DI unit. I was lugging bottles from the water store every week . BTW the RO tds was 3-7 TDS and that was a huge commercial setup .
My 5 stage is as follows for filters
1st 1/2 micron sediment filter, 2nd 1/2 micron carbon block, 3stage 75gpd membrane, 4th stage MAX CAP DI (spectrapure) and 5th stage Silica buster mixed bed DI.
Do you have to ?No . I used plain ro water in my reefs for 3 years before I broke down and bought a killer RO/DI unit. I was lugging bottles from the water store every week . BTW the RO tds was 3-7 TDS and that was a huge commercial setup .
My 5 stage is as follows for filters
1st 1/2 micron sediment filter, 2nd 1/2 micron carbon block, 3stage 75gpd membrane, 4th stage MAX CAP DI (spectrapure) and 5th stage Silica buster mixed bed DI.
Make that a 4 stage I went and counted
1st sediment filter 2nd carbon 3rd r/o membrane fourth water polish I should the fourth off and put in a D/I tube. That’s why I was asking the last stage on my filter is to polish up the water apparently and I do not think my coral will care.
Yes I would replace the 4th with a di cartrige.
Here is where I get mine .
http://spectrapure.com/St_replac_p4.htm
and here is the bulk stuff all you need is a refillable di cartrige.
http://spectrapure.com/St_replac_p5.htm
Here is where I get mine .
http://spectrapure.com/St_replac_p4.htm
and here is the bulk stuff all you need is a refillable di cartrige.
http://spectrapure.com/St_replac_p5.htm
thanks for the welcome
I am just getting back into the hobby after a 5 year break I am starting a small 29 gallon its nice this time around I have a lot more knowledge and the time to set it up how I want. But damn did things get expensive good thing I know how to build my own lights.
Hopefully I can find a reef friend or two in my area to trade frags with
Why take the 4th off? Why not just add another stage?
Ya looking around on e-bay I found a replaceable media inline d/i cartridge I can put that right after the r/o membrane 12 bux cant beat that. Or I could ditch the carbon But I like the idea of having the d/i after the r/o
DI must be your final stage .
Reason I say replace the polisher is because it is not useful . That polisher is for drinking water.
Ya I am planing on replacing it with this
http://cgi.ebay.com/DI-Filter-Refil...hZ006QQcategoryZ20684QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem
You can remove the polisher and use something like this .
http://airwaterice.com/product/REFILLDIPACK
BTW most people I know with ro/di get an average of 200g per di refill depending on the rejection rate of their ro membrane and intial TDS pre membrane.
http://airwaterice.com/product/REFILLDIPACK
BTW most people I know with ro/di get an average of 200g per di refill depending on the rejection rate of their ro membrane and intial TDS pre membrane.
