Distilled vs ro water?

[Soccerdude]

Please help. The beliefs of my lfs owner seem to be different then what my research has showed. I thought ro water was better then distilled but apparently ro water is what's giving me phosphates opinions please

 

[Soccerdude]

Oh, and the ro water is what I have been using for top off, because I recently stopped using distilled for top off because of what the web generally agrees on..... I'm kind of lost here

 

[Convict2161]

I don't know about RO water giving phosphates but I can tell you I use distilled water to top off and my tank is 10 months old now and no issues to report.

 

[ezy33]

RO DI water should have no phosphates but the food you feed your fish can have phosphates. Rinse all frozen foods in RO DI water before feeding it to the tank. Use a phosphate remover will help too. RO filtered water will still have phosphates in it.

 

[Soccerdude]

Okay my topoff source does have the Di part. So I guess I'm just going to use distilled in till I have the money to invest in a high quality rodi unit. This seems like something I should not skimp on.

 

[bskerrichard27]

Distilled is fine just do a tds check on it ...