Do you use R/O water for your reef?

[Be11yDancer]

I was reading up on seahorses and was shock to find that people breeding seahorses are using tap water! (Nice article & great plumping descriptions)

www.seahorse.org/library/articles/scaleerectus.pdf

I know I have copper in my water (blue stains under faucet in tub)

I'm not ready to chance it.

But I am curious who might be using tap with a reef and what their success is?

And food for thought: I let the waste water from r-o run into my goldfish pond out back. Those guys get no respect! They don't even have a filter, just bubbles and that was just put in after 4 years!

 

[pwj1286]

It just works! I started my tank off with tap water for 2 months and I had crazy algae problems and cyno. Got a unit and it was gone in 2 weeks. So I could imagen all the stuff that would hurt the young in the water. Not worth using tap.
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Ferrari 308 GTS

 

[Anonymous]

I use RO/DI/DI with a High Silicate removal RO membrane.

My TDS readings:
Tap - 350
After RO - 5
After first DI - 1
After second DI - 0

 

[Anonymous]

I use RO/DI. No reason to handicap the tank by putting extra organics and other stuff that could hurt the critters.

 

[Anonymous]

I use bottled distilled right now until I can buy a proper RO/DI unit. I used tap water before, and the algae and cyano was out of control. Now that I'm topping off with distilled the cyano has all but completely diappeared and the algae growth has slowed greatly.

Peace,

Chip

 

[Anonymous]

Too much junk in tap water. I bring my 4 5ga buckets to that damn windmill place and fill them once a week for top off & water changes. I need to invest in my own RO/DI unit. Much cheaper in the long run.

 

[Anonymous]

I use tap, but I have a large refugium with many different genera of algae. My reef stays algae free.

I would not recommend it for those who run a reef using a skimmer and DSB and such.

 

[jschoon]

I still use just tap in my tank. However, I have been reading and talking with several reef keepers and from the benefits they describe I have begun looking for a RO/DI unit. I am looking for a small to medium capacity unit as I only have a 38 gal tank. If anyone has or knows of one for sale let me know.

 

[Anonymous]

I use RO and the DI unit is the Tap Water Purifier.

 

[Anonymous]

RODI with an in-line commercial particle filter between the tap and the RODI unit, water quality here varies day to day so its very necessary.....

 

[Len]

I bet beaslbob has read this and is itching to add his two cents Sorry Bob ... just ribbing you a bit 8)