Deionized - Distilled - Osmosis - Rainwater

[Magnum Man]

my well water goes over 8 for a ph... I find RO to be my soft water fish's friend

 

[Back in the fold]

I’ve been using R/O water for six years now and I have my own R/O unit too , a 75 gallon a day unit . The unit doesn’t seem to up my water bill and changing out the filters at regular intervals is no hassle . I mix tap and R/O to get the 100 PPM TDS that the fish seem happiest in . pH always stays the same at 8.0 no matter what I do and it doesn’t seem to matter to my fish so I don’t worry about it anymore . The only fish I use straight tap water on is my Guppies and Platy’s . They like that 200 PPM TDS and so does my ever increasing population of Ramshorn snails . One thing that happens every May and June is that with the snow melting in the high country and the river coming up is that my water comes out of the tap at 50 to 75 PPM TDS and then it gradually increases until winter sets in again . Before anybody harshes on me for letting the bypass water from my R/O unit go down the drain I don’t feel like that’s a bad thing . It goes right back into the Yellowstone River and on downstream to other towns that draw out of the river . That’s better than what I flush down and no , that’s not why it’s named the Yellowstone .