Water Treatment

[riksworld]

Hi All,

Im currently in the setting up stage of my 800 litre tank, I know that severn trent water uses chlorimins as there fav posion for my tank, im currently thinking of making sure that none of this stuff gets in my tank, If some people who know about chemistry might help me

1 Im thinking about running the water 24hrs through activated carbon, ive been told this would break it down, but then this leaves me with ammonia, is this correct?

2 Would a Ro/Di unit be of help in getting rid of this, I know these usually are for Marine, put to make sure your tap water is 100% safe, would this be a possibility, or
would this be to pure for a Tropical setup

3 I know you can use tap water treatment, but would prefer so use a backup at the same time, considering I will be keeping some expensive in the 800ltr, I would like to know im well protected

Any help or comments on this would be thanked.

 

[Katch]

Just use a good dechlorinator like Prime that also binds Chloramines. Make your life easy by not changing the characteristics of your tap water more than you have to.

If you use DI/RO you will have water with vastly different characteristics to your tap with no mineral content whatsoever. If you ever need to perform emergency water changes or your DI/RO unit packs up your tap water will be unsuitable. You'll also then have water that is very different to that of you LFSs who will almost certainly be using plain dechlorinated tap water.

 

[OldMan47]

Sorry Riksworld, an RO is not a cure all for water quality. I use my RO for makeup water in my tanks between water changes because it has no minerals in it. Unfortunately, that no minerals aspect also makes it completely unsuitable for filling a tank or doing a water change. If I want to set up a low mineral content tank, I do it by mixing tap water with RO in a specific ratio that I can easily reproduce. That way an emergency water change can be done with known water parameters. The RO will indeed remove chlorine along with all calcium and sodium compounds. It will also remove all iron, etc., etc.