Using 'waste' water from humidifier??

May be a stupid question Judy, but if the object is to conserve water, is there not some way you can adjust the amount that is fed to the humidifier in the first place? If there is a lot of excess not being used maybe it's just a matter of lowering a float or adjusting a valve? I'm asking with no idea what a whole home humidifier even looks like... ;)
 
A cistern holds water that is diverted off the rooftop during rains. How grandma and grandpa raised 10 kids with just rainwater, I'll never know. Maybe at some point prior, they had a well (at a different house?) Anyway, not too long before my grandmother went into a nursing home, she got indoor plumbing, woo-hoo!! I remember being attacked once by a nasty rooster on my way to the outhouse; the next day, grandma put him on the chopping block. One of my dad's surviving brothers lives there now, alone, and only leaves the house to step onto the front porch to get a piece of wood for the stove. Grandpa died in '67, grandma in '90.

Keely - you're right. I watched the bucket fill today, and the valve needs to be closed a bit. We've got condensation on the windows; between that and my sinuses, I know we're humid enough.
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judy
 
I've heard of wanting to bring your post count up, but sheesh, Wetman, with the same post over and over???;)

I used to use rain runoff to cook with, so I would feel perfectly safe in using it in an aquarium....

We live only a few miles from the county composting facility, which made our well water, well, let's say, "not the best". We had to use bleach in our dishwater, etc.... Plus, there's natural sulfur deposits in my area...which makes for some really nasty-smelling water...the rainwater was much better, trust me...
 
So wetmanNY: you'd take the rainwater, but then put it in a container where you could filter it through carbon and some sort of filter pads before you used it. OK. But...back to the drought question. If you have a tank maintenance routine that is dependent on the periodic injection of rainwater into the system, what do you do during the periods when there is no rainwater? Buy an R/O unit? Just wondering.
 
Hmm, Harry, and here we've just come through a minor water emergency-type drought in the Northeast. Supposed to be untypical.

But-- you set me thinking-- don't I also read that the change in water conditions is sometimes the spawning trigger? Say for Cories, where you let the warmth rise, the water level drop, and hold back on the water changes for a few weeks-- then blast 'em with clear fresh cool, soft rainwater! Something like that anyway.

I think rainwater is an underrated asset. No more 'n that... not a cure-all.
 
So, it could be good for breeding corys (I might have to try that, although I will have to simulate the evaporation conditions before the rainwater will make much of a difference), but not as a staple for softening the water in your discus tank (unless you have a backup system available).

Another question. Without using the roof as a collection surface, how do you get enough into the barrel to make each rainstorm really count?
 
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