Thank you Andrew, I was going to post last night about this but from the "water making and drinking water quality" point of view but your post introduced medical facts to shut down the "Old Wifes Tails" and is probable more effectivve than me trying to explain that demineralizing or DI (same thing) is used all over the world for drinking water in countries whare water would otherwise be undrinkable.
I think Marianne had a good point also about making sure the resins you are using are FOOD GRADE, after all with everyone trying to be concenious (spelling?) in this hobby, why would you use any water that is not safe to drink yourself. If the resins are not food grade...what by products are they leaving behind? and how will they afffect our fish?
I think it was said to me once "you spent thousands of bucks on sand and rock.. don't risk your fish over saving 20.00" or something along the same lines as that
Steve
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