what do you use RO/DI OR Tap water...... POLL ~VOTE~

[PEVINE11]

some people use RO/DI filtered water
Some People Use tap water


Just wondering what ]V[.F.K 'ers use for water in their aquariums




post why you use what you voted for, or why you dont use what you voted agnist

 

[bigfishrcool1193]

no poll yet?

I use filtered water, somewhat like RO, but the water is not as soft as RO.

I use it because the water in phoenix is extremely hard and I have south american cichlids, so I figured it would be better to use softer water.

 

[PEVINE11]

we all have water in our tanks!

VOTE WHAT YOU USE

 

[dmopar74]

tap but ONLY because im too poor to buy an ro/di right now.

 

[tdwright1971]

My reef tanks get auto topoff with rodi and my fresh tanks get tapped from a python like device...

 

[PEVINE11]

only 13 people here uses water?

MORE VOTES

 

[PEVINE11]

70% people on here use tap water
and only 30% use RO/DI


on another site i posted this on ( i will include link, mods please delete if it not suposed to be here)
ReefCentral Ro/DI . Tap ~poll~

But

out of 18 people
100% use RODI
0% use tap

 

[tdwright1971]

our tap water here basically gets pumped from the lake, treated with chlorine and florine then they add lime to add calcium and raise the hardness my ph comes out at 8.6. The phosphates are higher coming out of the tap than my old tank water, i use mangroves in the freshwater tanks to pull out the phosphates. Since i change the water not just top off i don't mind using tap for my big freshwater water changes. For my reef tanks its ro all the way, since the salt mix has buffer and everything thats needed, and ro for top off because all that evaporates is the water. If i used ro for the fresh water water changes it would be very costly and i would have to add back the buffers i just removed.

 

[Myteemouse]

RODI I have thousands of dollars in live stock corals and such to dare use Tap water.. I get no algae problems or anything..
Best investment..

 

[thaos95]

Tap water