RO for the impoverished

[JKurtz]

Can anyone recommend a decent RO unit for a reasonable price? No one in my neck of the woods knows diddly about them. In fact, the LFS I deal with doesn't even recommend their use. He claims RO isn't necessary for our local water.
I have been getting by fairly well with regular tap water for about a year now, but I think I'd see even happier corals with RO or RO/DI. Besides, God only knows what's gradually accumulating in there!
I trust what I read on this site over anything I hear locally, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Anonymous]

hi.
Your LFS is either too honest or too ignorant. Anyway, do you have Costco around where you live? You can get a RO with drinking water kit for about $150. You can get a bare-bone unit for much cheaper if you look at some of the reef hardware stores.

 

[whirley]

Or, you can hit on online shop, like
reefpure
http://www.reefpure.net/
or
http://www.aquaticreefsystems.com/

Dave over at reefpure is selling several of his Ro unit with savings of 35%

whirley

 

[JKurtz]

Thanks for the info! I'm not aware of a Costco around here, but maybe the online shop is the way to go.

Jeff

 

[dvb]

I just talked with my local fish guy and he said that the store that he works at loves the Spectrapure units. spectrapure.com
They haven't had any problems with them. I looked them up and they are not the cheapest out there, but lack of headaches is definitely worth something!

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[JKurtz]

I was just checking out the Aquatic Reef Systems website, too. The Triton 3-stage seems pretty reasonable, though I wonder how much it differs from the 3-stage value RO. For the small difference in price, it seems logical to go with the Triton. I'm going to do a little more checking around before making a decision, though. I'll probably look into the Spectrapure site that you mentioned next.

 

[dvb]

I was checking out the Aquatic reef systems RO/DI units. They look pretty nice. Kent units seem to be sold at most places. Do you know of any major differences between the two? Which one is better?

 

[fsa]

J, I think you would be real happy with a unit from aquatic reef systems. I just bought a two stage last month from Bryan there and am real happy with it. I plan to soon upgrade it to a 3 stage in a couple of months. Bryan offers real good customer service and will call you at home if you e-mail him, or, at least he did me. His deals are hard to beat, I think. (I believe his two stage unit is a 100 gpd system, but he can verify that).

 

[Anonymous]

Spectrapure charges $10 to ship a $4 dollar replacement tube. When they eventually ship it.

still waiting,
po

 

[Dazureus]

I purchased a 5 stage ro/DI from Airwaterice.comfor 139.00 on Monday. I should have gotten it today, but something is screwy with UPS. It seems good as they use Filmtec membranes from Dow, but the DI seems smaller than other units (2.5 x 11 inches). I'll probably purchase ome bulk DI and replace when needed.

 

[montie]

i have a kent maxima 35 (not sure if available in usa dn quite expensive), it has 3 sections below with the filters which are clear so when the filters are beggining to become exhausted you can tell by the colour of them, really handy imo