Water

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  1. Damsels R Cool

    Damsels R Cool Millepora

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    For top of's i use water i get from the water mechines outside publix they have like 5 stages of water filtering including RO as one but no DI i read from another threand that the DI part takes out some stuff that feeds algae blooms so is there any water i could get with out buying a RO/DI filter (getting one sooner or later) what about distilled water i could get jugs of that insted or is just RO better than distilled
     
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  2. psiclone

    psiclone Purple Spiny Lobster

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    Honestly its going to be hard to say without you testing the water with a tds meter... The RO will probably be lower unless they havent changed their filters in a while
     
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  3. Damsels R Cool

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    TDS would be lower in the RO than the Distilled
     
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  4. GuitarMan89

    GuitarMan89 Giant Squid

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    I'm not so sure. Theoretically, distilled water should be pure H2O, it is evaporated and condensed. Of course, there may be practical issues and problems with both.
     
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  5. Damsels R Cool

    Damsels R Cool Millepora

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    so what would be better RO RO/DI or distilled

    and what are some disadvantges of each
     
    Damsels R Cool, Mar 30, 2009
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