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thanks for the correction. :)

I was thinking about doing the RODI thing, but then I read somewhere that using only RODI water was dangerous because of the lack of nutrients and that you would have to add in nutrients. Then I read somewhere and that it doesn't really change the pH, just the mineral content.????

However, I trust your expertise over random comments on the internet. I haven't done enough research, so I don't really know how RODI works, benefits, cons, etc. Do you have any good websites or resources to learn more about it?
Ro di removes tds total disolved solids the stuff that adds hardness and therefore ph+. Things like calcium magnesium chlorine chlorides good stuff and bad stuff so it leaves your water very neutral lacking any substantial ions. Your water coming out of rodi is "hungry" it will pull ions from its surroundings. In a salt system this is a good thing because you are going to be dumping an S load of salt with all kinds of ions into it all good stuff. In fresh water not so good as it will leach stuff from what you put in to it like plants fish substrate. You get the point. I'd look into some of the sites that sell rodi units not resell them but one of the manufactures they usually have all the info you need. Thats where it started for me when I started upgrading tank size in salt. OIt'sts not that hard but I'd not worry about it if I were you.
 
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Ro di removes tds total disolved solids the stuff that adds hardness and therefore ph+. Things like calcium magnesium chlorine chlorides good stuff and bad stuff so it leaves your water very neutral lacking any substantial ions. Your water coming out of rodi is "hungry" it will pull ions from its surroundings. In a salt system this is a good thing because you are going to be dumping an S load of salt with all kinds of ions into it all good stuff. In fresh water not so good as it will leach stuff from what you put in to it like plants fish substrate. You get the point. I'd look into some of the sites that sell rodi units not resell them but one of the manufactures they usually have all the info you need. Thats where it started for me when I started upgrading tank size in salt. OIt'sts not that hard but I'd not worry about it if I were you.
Thanks! I really appreciate the detailed response and the insight. I had no idea it affected salt and fresh water differently. In that case I think I’m going to hold off on RODI for now.

Check out these silly gooses:
 
Yeah thats pretty epic! I actually lol'd.

As for rodi treating salt differently it doesnt its just you are adding all that good stuff back in with the salt. Salt mix has salt calcium magnesium iron a multitude of other minerals that are needed by inverts,fish, and corals. You'd want to add something to the rodi for fresh water too like maybe send it through a filtersock full of crushed coral or something along those lines. Unless you were looking for a really low tds low ph water. But like I said it'd still need something in my book to not be damaging in any way to your live stock. You could easily use just ro water just drop the deionizing resin.
 
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Yeah thats pretty epic! I actually lol'd.

As for rodi treating salt differently it doesnt its just you are adding all that good stuff back in with the salt. Salt mix has salt calcium magnesium iron a multitude of other minerals that are needed by inverts,fish, and corals. You'd want to add something to the rodi for fresh water too like maybe send it through a filtersock full of crushed coral or something along those lines. Unless you were looking for a really low tds low ph water. But like I said it'd still need something in my book to not be damaging in any way to your live stock. You could easily use just ro water just drop the deionizing resin.
That’s so interesting! When I have more time, and start researching RODI more, I will definitely revisit this thread. Thank you so much for your expertise. What you said made sense.

Right now I’m kinda bogged down with school. Was thinking about doing the 6g as a nano reef, but I realized I don’t like changing the water as much because of mixing the salt. So Idk if I need more of a challenge atm with corals hehe. Although I definitely want to do that in the future. In addition, the tank isn’t in a great viewing space. So I might just tap out with salt for now and do a beta tank or dwarf puffs.
 
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Thanks! I really appreciate the detailed response and the insight. I had no idea it affected salt and fresh water differently. In that case I think I’m going to hold off on RODI for now.

Check out these silly gooses:

That is freakin awesome. My new all.time favorite poly vid!
 
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