Ordovician
05-19-2003, 1:03 PM
Hi all
I recently decided to invest in an RO wate system. However, i went the cheap route and I bought a Bare Bones unit off of Ebay. Well it came to me without the prefilter (which I knew) and the membrane in it is not a barebones ones but a osmonics one. (CTA-16 to be exact). Now just for fun I decided to try a test run thinking that the prefilter basically filters out the sediment and not much else. Well, when I tested the water the membrane did not filter any of the phosphate or iron out of the water, and who knows what else was left in there. So my question is whether any one has one of these units with the proper equipment, and if they do are they satisfied with it? The site says it should filter out 87-95% of all the stuff in tap water......
My other question involves the storing of RO water. I live in a small apartment and I don't have a whole lot of room. And I cant really install anything into the plumbing or anything like that. Is my best bet to just get a large (15) gallon container of some sort and store it that way?
I've been getting excellent plant growth. I do CO2 (ph 6.6 kh 4), I use flourite, I dose with stump remover and fleet, but I just can't get rid of the algae........so I'm convinced it has to be something in the water in Lexington.
I recently decided to invest in an RO wate system. However, i went the cheap route and I bought a Bare Bones unit off of Ebay. Well it came to me without the prefilter (which I knew) and the membrane in it is not a barebones ones but a osmonics one. (CTA-16 to be exact). Now just for fun I decided to try a test run thinking that the prefilter basically filters out the sediment and not much else. Well, when I tested the water the membrane did not filter any of the phosphate or iron out of the water, and who knows what else was left in there. So my question is whether any one has one of these units with the proper equipment, and if they do are they satisfied with it? The site says it should filter out 87-95% of all the stuff in tap water......
My other question involves the storing of RO water. I live in a small apartment and I don't have a whole lot of room. And I cant really install anything into the plumbing or anything like that. Is my best bet to just get a large (15) gallon container of some sort and store it that way?
I've been getting excellent plant growth. I do CO2 (ph 6.6 kh 4), I use flourite, I dose with stump remover and fleet, but I just can't get rid of the algae........so I'm convinced it has to be something in the water in Lexington.