Has anyone setup RO for continuous water change is there any recommendations for RO water per day hour to total tank volume.
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RO continus water change
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Ro isn't that beneficial. Aside from it being pure water (which is great), it doesn't have the essential minerals that our fish require that is in tap water. You could do an ro drip but you would still need to do a tap water change atleast once a month.
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Or just add the necessary minerals back in (Kent RO Right). RO is great for those that have toxic tapwater where water changes just add back the same crap you're trying to get rid of (nitrates, heavy metals, liquid rock, etc).
For freshwater use the carbon filter. I use the one from the Filter guys @ 40gal a day drip. It doesn't take out all the minerals, it's kinda like using Prime only. look down at the bottom at carbon drip systemshttp://thefilterguys.biz/ro_systems.htm, I have the three stage. IMO RO is too much for fresh.
That's a broad statement that doesn't apply to everybody depending on the fish and your tapwater.
True, I don't live in Comifornia where the water is crap like how the state is run.
just playin brotha All said you are correct, but the carbon filter will work if you are already using water conditioner like Prime. If you've got sensitive fish like wc discus then that's a whole other story.
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Could you just set up a drip system for your prime too? Once you know how many GPD you are changing, just slowly drip in the correlating amount of prime. I may just have to piss off the landlords here soon and set up drip system.I would use air line hose after the drip emiters for the new water and prime system, Y the two together, and run the fresh supply to your sump(or wherever)
You could even just get one of those cheap hanging douche bags to fill with prime, since that system would have to be gravity fed. I had thought about one of the filter guys charchoal systems for AWC, but I'd hate to be replacing that much charcoal, prime is way cheaper in the long run.
You could even just get one of those cheap hanging douche bags to fill with prime, since that system would have to be gravity fed. I had thought about one of the filter guys charchoal systems for AWC, but I'd hate to be replacing that much charcoal, prime is way cheaper in the long run.
I have seen a system on here that doses Prime, don't remember who's. They used a chemical doser. I found my system to be cheaper in the long run and less complicated IMO.
I drip aprox 15k gallons a year @ 40 gallons a day and it's a 20k system, so I change the filters one a year @ less than $20. If I was using prime it would cost more.
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with just simply using charcoal filters, do you have any troubles with ammonia coming from them? the charcoal will only break down the chlorine, if you have chloramine in your water, the resulting breakdown of the chlorine is ammonia. now i know noone wants to be adding straight ammonia to their tanks so this would be where an RO or RO/DI would be helpful as to remove that extra ammonia.