i have a question i have a dehumidifier running in the basement is it a posliblity of using that water to go for water top offs cuz it is so clear and clean and next time it is full i will check the paramaters of it.
water from dehumidifier?
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No you shouldn't use it. Test kits are not all knowing. They generally can only test for four parameters yet there are thousands of compounds that they can not test for. Indoor air is pretty dirty, and is way worse than outside air. Indoor air starts as outdoor air and then we pump all kinds of crap into it. Anything that will condense within the ball park of room temperature or is hydrophylic will end up in the dehumidifiers holding tank. Dust and mold spores will also stick to the water in the condenser and end up in the tank.
Anyway, water is super cheap. You can put the reclaimed water to good use by watering outdoor plants.
Anyway, water is super cheap. You can put the reclaimed water to good use by watering outdoor plants.
this came up before.... X2 what chompers said.... whats a gallon of water from your tap cost??? cost of your fish???
yeah i was just wondering and i dont know how much a gallon of water form the tap cost im not incharge of the water bill my parents r lol
but i do have lots of nice fish and all added up come to a decent amount cuz i got 1 silver arro around 5-6inches, 5 orino pbass around 2-3inch, sengal around 3-4inch, 2 yellow lab cichlids, 3 plecos, 4 5.5-7inch rbps so thats quite an expense if something were to be bad and all ended up dead k so i will stay away from using it
but i do have lots of nice fish and all added up come to a decent amount cuz i got 1 silver arro around 5-6inches, 5 orino pbass around 2-3inch, sengal around 3-4inch, 2 yellow lab cichlids, 3 plecos, 4 5.5-7inch rbps so thats quite an expense if something were to be bad and all ended up dead k so i will stay away from using it
I dumped all the water from dehumidifier into my washing machine. When it gets full..I'll find something to throw in the washer ...
I posted this a while back:
I researched this subject quite a bit for another member. There are some minor and major drawbacks to using reclaimed water from a dehumidifier. If the unit is new, the water is relatively safe. But, even new units have to be checked for suitability of using the condensed water due to anti-oxidant coatings from particular manufacturing plants. IMO, it's just safer to use the water on outdoor plants then to use it in aquaria.
Dehumidifiers:
-with copper coils can have high enough levels of copper in the condensate to kill off all inverts and harm the livers of many fish and herps.
-Any oils/chemicals in the air will also be concentrated in the condensate tank.
-Unless cleaned every couple of days, the mold commonly found in the cases and condensate tanks of dehumidifiers will be more concentrated than the tank is normally exposed to from the ambient air.
A note on dehumidfier copper coils versus home plumbing copper pipes:
We've had members experience problems upon moving into new construction homes. Same water, same plumbing, and same municipal reservoir. However, their fish/inverts suffered inexplicably. I asked a civil engineer for the county water district for his insight and he suggested that aged copper pipes usually have mineral/salt deposits on them. This "skin" prevents copper from being leeched into the water within the piping. The new-home pipes haven't had time to build up this coating and, therefore, the aquariums suffered.
In dehumidifiers, there's no chance of building this coating. So, copper-sensitive species will always be at risk of suffering toxic effects from the reclaimed water in copper-coiled units.
I researched this subject quite a bit for another member. There are some minor and major drawbacks to using reclaimed water from a dehumidifier. If the unit is new, the water is relatively safe. But, even new units have to be checked for suitability of using the condensed water due to anti-oxidant coatings from particular manufacturing plants. IMO, it's just safer to use the water on outdoor plants then to use it in aquaria.
Dehumidifiers:
-with copper coils can have high enough levels of copper in the condensate to kill off all inverts and harm the livers of many fish and herps.
-Any oils/chemicals in the air will also be concentrated in the condensate tank.
-Unless cleaned every couple of days, the mold commonly found in the cases and condensate tanks of dehumidifiers will be more concentrated than the tank is normally exposed to from the ambient air.
A note on dehumidfier copper coils versus home plumbing copper pipes:
We've had members experience problems upon moving into new construction homes. Same water, same plumbing, and same municipal reservoir. However, their fish/inverts suffered inexplicably. I asked a civil engineer for the county water district for his insight and he suggested that aged copper pipes usually have mineral/salt deposits on them. This "skin" prevents copper from being leeched into the water within the piping. The new-home pipes haven't had time to build up this coating and, therefore, the aquariums suffered.
In dehumidifiers, there's no chance of building this coating. So, copper-sensitive species will always be at risk of suffering toxic effects from the reclaimed water in copper-coiled units.
