RO or distilled?

[mikie61]

Getting tired of hauling ro water from our local petco. Yes it's cheap at only 8 cents per gal.
But doing some research in water filtering methods I find that distilled water removes the most from the water. Yes even good things that fish need.
Could you not just add essential minerals like kent marine's to distilled water and have the best of both worlds??
I'm looking at a Sears distiller, it produces 3 gallons a day but I only need 10 gallons a week for water changes. My Kent marine essential elements says a cap ful for 40 gallons so it would last a long time too.
Any opinions would be welcome.
Cheap & confused. :joe:

 

[Reefscape]

The main issue you come across with distilled water is that, by the nature of distillation, it is run heavily through copper pipes, and to me, that would not be worth a risk...So, it would be certainly RO all the way..

Just an opinion of course

Niko

 

[dorkfish]

Buy an RO, RO/DI or DI unit... either of these will give you all the purity you need.

As far as stuff that the fish need being removed... forget about it... any decent salt mix will take of that.

 

[jojo22]

I buy water from the supermarket and it is distilled, then ran thru an ro unit then has ozone passed thru it, so I figure it's about as pure as water can get.

 

[SHK_ATK]

wow ur petco sell RO water?? pff mine sell some Aqua Garden 5G box of "Sea water" for 15 bucks LMFAO!!!

 

[jojo22]

No I get the water at Giant Eagle or Wallmart. I am thinking of switching to clearwaters Ultra Pure but want to do some research first.

 

[SHK_ATK]

what now walmart has RO water??!! Geez my area SUCKS!!!:mad2: only place that has RO water is my EX LFS (15 min away) and RO/DI water my NEW LFS (20 min away) both walmart and petco are 5 min away

 

[jojo22]

The water I use is in the beverage asile, DON'T use the machine outside!!! One of those cost me 600 bux in livestock, got my money back from the water company but it was still a bad deal.

 

[SHK_ATK]

hmmmm beverage asile eh??:idea:

 

[jojo22]

Yep runs me about 68 cents a gallon.