Man your lucky... Our water here is so bad i feal bad giving it Tom dogs lol.. When I didn't run a filter I got lazy and used our tap one time on a 300 gallon reef tank and it was 5 gallons was all and the next day I had horrible algae growth all over the glass and on the sand bed so I defently wouldn't give my plants this water... We get warnings Atleast a few times a year not to drink the water lol so its bad and yet we pay for this shit waterMuah hahahaha.... nothing! I used to run an ro until I stuck my tds meter into the sink. 50ppm... I can live with that. Chalk this one up to just living in the right spot and dumb luck.
Man your lucky... Our water here is so bad i feal bad giving it Tom dogs lol.. When I didn't run a filter I got lazy and used our tap one time on a 300 gallon reef tank and it was 5 gallons was all and the next day I had horrible algae growth all over the glass and on the sand bed so I defently wouldn't give my plants this water... We get warnings Atleast a few times a year not to drink the water lol so its bad and yet we pay for this shit water
Mines only a 35 gallon per day ... Reason was when I first started my reef tank I was told the Less water a day it makes the cleaner it will be but now I found by doing a tds check on say your 300 gpd system and my 35 gpd its about the same reading which mines always at 0 ppms. It will start rising fast once the filters need changed out also the membrane is the most expensive part but if you keep the prefiltes changed as needed the membrane will last years... Mines still the original one from almost 5 years ago and I change the filters once a year and it saves the membrane but its always stays zero ppm so I never bother changing I since they say you don't have to untill its ruined from running your prefiltes to long also they need back washed also if you guys didn't know which I honestly haven't done in a few years .... Oooops lol anyways just thought I'd through that info out there incase the OP didn't know or anyone elseI second Bulk Reef Supply. I got the Spartan 300 gl a day with the booster pump. Works great and pumps fast compared to all the smaller ones I have tried.
Peace, Afi
If it's that old then it may need to be tested again. A lot has changed in the Old High Oh in fiddy years, hasn't it?thinking about gettin a ro system and would like ideas from others.
or maybe i should just fix my well? still waiting on utility board for water quality
.they seem to have lost records on the well its about 50 years old lol
For sure... I'm in mich 15 mins from oh high oh as you call it :-) but ya to me its a must to have a RO or RO/DI unit ... Saves alot of headache ... Had a few guys literally kill there whole crop over bad water...'anything can get into our waste supply these days and its not worth it to me to waste alot of time and work ... My fish tank as I said went to hell literally over night cause of city water and I now well is normally better but sometimes its just as badIf it's that old then it may need to be tested again. A lot has changed in the Old High Oh in fiddy years, hasn't it?
Are you on the gage green genetics forum seamaiden? I lurk there for time to time and do test grows for them under another name then this one ... Its 1973caregiver over there<cough>Cuyahoga<coughcough>
Thanks buddy ... Ill defently look into that ... We literally only shower in out water and that's bad enough lol dont know how clean its really getting us lolWow, that's hard core! You might consider something like a solar water distillery to help provide better water for yourself. Ro works, but sometimes having a water conditioner upstream of it helps it out. You should look into that.
I dont have any problems with tds readings as it is always 0 and I change filters once a year and then my readings are only between 3-5 ppm but the prefilters look nasty so I change them. I don`t like storing water so using a larger Ro system gives me water on demand. I`m an impatient man Lol.Mines only a 35 gallon per day ... Reason was when I first started my reef tank I was told the Less water a day it makes the cleaner it will be but now I found by doing a tds check on say your 300 gpd system and my 35 gpd its about the same reading which mines always at 0 ppms. It will start rising fast once the filters need changed out also the membrane is the most expensive part but if you keep the prefiltes changed as needed the membrane will last years... Mines still the original one from almost 5 years ago and I change the filters once a year and it saves the membrane but its always stays zero ppm so I never bother changing I since they say you don't have to untill its ruined from running your prefiltes to long also they need back washed also if you guys didn't know which I honestly haven't done in a few years .... Oooops lol anyways just thought I'd through that info out there incase the OP didn't know or anyone else
Oh trust me I hear ya ... I actually needed watter the other day and between the wife running the washer and the kids having the hose on all day it held me at about 1 gpd lmao so it pissed me off so I defently need to get a bigger sediment filter since that's all you need to change out to up your gpd and the flow restrictor to almost forgot bu its simple so it costs very little on bulk reef supply to up mine from 35 to 100 and that will help out alot as of now I always have to make sure i turn the filter on when the barrel is half full which is another thing I'm gonna do next is add a float valve to make it kick on when it gets low and off when it gets full ... Got my fish tank set to auto fill when the level drops so the salinity stays in good range and my lazy ass dont have to hand top the tank off but def need to do the same for my water i use for growingI dont have any problems with tds readings as it is always 0 and I change filters once a year and then my readings are only between 3-5 ppm but the prefilters look nasty so I change them. I don`t like storing water so using a larger Ro system gives me water on demand. I`m an impatient man Lol.
Peace, Afi
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