Filtered Water

[syntaxx]

Since i will be moving soon from deep well to municipal water I am planning to install 3 stages of filtration with UV on my water source. This is for my drinking water as well as for water change. However i am thinking if it safe to use this for water change.

Sediment -> Ceramic -> Activated Carbon -> UV

any thoughts?

Thanks

 

[Toby_H]

Safe... yes...

Unnecessary... yes...

Some level of minerals etc in the water is not at all harmful and in some ways beneficial... You'll have to find out more about your municipal water and the species of fish you are keeping to make a detailed conclusion...

There are thousands of us that use city water for water changes doing nothing more than adding a simple dechlorinator...

 

[earthstudent]

If you are doing regular (biweekly, weekly or more) than the added minerals can definitely be a good thing. I do however know that in some areas the water quality can be pretty bad and I do not feel it is all that safe for long term ingestion.

If you are not doing regular changes and gust topping off than you will need to worry about mineral concentrations getting high.

I would say in general it is not to bad using plain tap water with dechlorinator but I think it really depends on your specific water, the fish you are keeping and the standards you want for your own water.

I personally will be using a filter system when I move back to the city as I do not trust the water quality.

 

[squint]

Tap water with dechlor is the easiest and in most cases, more than sufficient.

If you want to remove chlorine/chloramine with carbon then you need sufficient carbon to deal with your water's chloramine concentration (I have 5 canisters in a row) and flow rate. If you have chloramine you need DI resin to remove the ammonia leftover. But DI resin will be exhausted quickly without a reverse osmosis membrane upstream of it. RO water is very soft so you'll be testing pH pretty often and buffering the water.

It gets complicated and expensive really fast. I'd budget about $1000.

 

[syntaxx]

Thanks for the responses. I am not spending $1000 bucks for water change only though since i am getting the canister for drinking purposes. I am just curious if using my filtered water on a weekly water change will not get bad for my fish.

 

[squint]

You'll have to get test kits for chlorine/chloramine and ammonia since it's possible that filter will let one of those through.