Question about water change.

[Kelso]

I was just wondering if you could use store bought reverse ozmosis water (ex. Aquafina) to do water changes? If so do I need to add any conditioner or anything like that?

 

[CaptainAhab]

PR says it has an average TDS of 4.. Better than tap, not as good as RO/DI. No conditioner should be need though the PR doesn't mention chloramines. For safety I would.

An RO/DI might be more cost effective in the long run

 

[Kelso]

Sorry, can you be a little less technical. Im to stupid to understand these abreveations.

 

[CaptainAhab]

yes Aquafina is fine, add conditioner as a safety precaution.

PR: Public Relations (statements from the company)
TDS : Total Dissolved Solids
RO/DI: Reverse Osmosis/De-ionization (filtering technique). Filter can be purchased to make 0 TDS (see above) water. Pure water.. H2O

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

you can buy Culligan RO water from most wal-mart stores for 37 cents/gallon. Get some of those orange Home Depot buckets & lids & fill them for less than $2 each. HD buckets are HDPE, same as water jugs for camping, so they're fine, I just rinse, wipe down with vinegar, rinse a couple more times, and they're good to go.

 

[Kelso]

Sweet thanks guys. What do you mean by HD and HDPE?

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

HD - home depot
HDPE - high density poly ethylene (plastic)

 

[melosu58]

Water Changes in Reef Aquaria by Randy Holmes-Farley - Reefkeeping.com

 

[Kelso]

Thanks.

 

[eatsomepopcorn]

Certainly you can and should use RO water.

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

This is where I got mine. You can't beat the price. I got 150 GPD dual DI for $114 shipped. Works great. I added a couple shutoff valves and linked it with our home system so when I'm not filling trash cans it speeds up the refill on the house side.

Edit...oops forgot the link

http://stores.ebay.com/purewaterclub

 

[thincat]

Floyd, you are so tricky with those invisible links...

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

Sorry, I used invisible HTML by accident. I added the link back in.