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christyf5 09-15-2008 04:37 AM

Wendell from Ocean Aquatics just listed a couple for sale, you can't be do much better than that if you ask me :biggrin:

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=44937

nikemikey 09-15-2008 05:23 AM

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Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat (Post 345528)
16 jugs, $10/jug deposit. How much for the actual water? You know, I found my RO/DI on ebay, lightly used for $50. Prev owner daid maybe 500 gal through it, and was about right, TDS still really low. 700 in, 10 out

The water is only $4 per 18L jug at Superstore, which I think isn't too bad. Haven't thought about checking ebay for used RO/DI filters though

nikemikey 09-15-2008 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by christyf5 (Post 345530)
Wendell from Ocean Aquatics just listed a couple for sale, you can't be do much better than that if you ask me :biggrin:

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=44937

Cool thanks Christy! I'll be calling them tomorrow morning to hopefully secure one for myself :mrgreen:

brizzo 09-15-2008 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by nikemikey (Post 345552)
The water is only $4 per 18L jug at Superstore, which I think isn't too bad. Haven't thought about checking ebay for used RO/DI filters though

Yikes! It's only $1.25/18L here ...

likwid 09-15-2008 09:58 PM

You do know that superstore water is RO but they do not use DI filters. Also, I would be weary of those places as I am sure they do not check their filters that often. I use to do the same thing as you before I bought my RO/DI unit. I measured the water with a TDS meter in one of those jugs one day and found out it was at 50+ TDS.

nikemikey 09-16-2008 01:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by likwid (Post 345627)
You do know that superstore water is RO but they do not use DI filters. Also, I would be weary of those places as I am sure they do not check their filters that often. I use to do the same thing as you before I bought my RO/DI unit. I measured the water with a TDS meter in one of those jugs one day and found out it was at 50+ TDS.

I don't use the machine they have to fill up empty jugs, I buy the pre-sealed polaris jugs that they have. I just assumed the water polaris put in those jugs was ro/di, so I'm not 100% sure

nikemikey 09-16-2008 01:40 AM

P.S. - Both of those filters at Ocean Aquatics were sold by the time I called them this morning :cry:

slakker 09-16-2008 04:29 AM

I'm not sure they do DI... as there's urban myths abound with DI water.... so RO is likely the best you'll get. Also, for human consumtion, which is what the water is sold for, is likely RO only...

StirCrazy 09-16-2008 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by slakker (Post 345696)
I'm not sure they do DI... as there's urban myths abound with DI water.... so RO is likely the best you'll get. Also, for human consumtion, which is what the water is sold for, is likely RO only...

not nessasarly true, there are some places that do DI, and some that use RO and some that use a combanation. I lot of the machiens that you fill your self in stores are filters with DI so they do't have to do as much plumbing.

Steve


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