Comments on: Do You Have To Use Reverse Osmosis Water?

By: John

John — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:41:15 +0000

Glad the text was OK. Your equipment is a bit big for most home aquariums!

By: RO Plant Manufacturer in India

RO Plant Manufacturer in India — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:53:44 +0000

your posting about RO Filter is very beneficial for me, keep it up.Thanks for Sharing information.

By: John

John — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:27:27 +0000

Hello.

There may be nitrate in your tap water or quite a number of other things caused by industry and/or agriculture. The water authorities put chlorine or chloramine in the water too as a cleaning agent. We don’t require any of it!

I would suggest that an RO filter would be worthwhile. You will know that you are mixing the purest water you can.

RO filters are not very expensive and are easily maintained – in fact they require little maintenance. It is best to check the amount you will need for routine seawater changes and size the RO filter to that. The filters come in various ‘gallons per day’ sizes.

It is also good to initially fill your aquarium with RO water, not tap water. This takes some time, but is worth it as from day one the seawater is as good as it can be.

I’m not sure what you mean by ‘water conditioner’ but assume it is a household conditioner. Many of these are based on carbon and are nowhere near as good as an RO filter – so as said I suggest the use of the RO filter.

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By: ahmad tehalwi

ahmad tehalwi — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:10:03 +0000

hello :
i have a 250 gallon aquarium , good bio home made filter ,ehiem mechanical filter for 1500 l , a protein skimmer ,uv lamp , good lighting .
i want to setup a reef aquarium .
my question is :
do i need an Ro system for my tap water ( there is no nitrite in my tap water ) or can i just use the( water conditioner )

By: lil.guppy

lil.guppy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:20:08 +0000

I use Glacier and I like it so far. They said that there are no prosphates or silicons in their water

By: John

John — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:15:39 +0000

Hi.
I’ve not come across “Glacierwater” before, so had a look at the website you provided.
I too would be interested to know if anyone has tried this.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:08:22 +0000

So what about the cheaper route glacier water (www.glacierwater.com)? These are found at many retailers and claim that they not only use R\O, but also a number of additional filters (http://www.glacierwater.com/quality.htm) at 25 – 30 cents a gallon it is cheaper that a aquatic store, and many location are available 24 hours for those “oops” nights. Anyone have any thoughts? has any testing ben done on the true quality of this source (results would vary as it does use local water system to for it’s source)?