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Originally Posted by Red Coral Aquariums
This might be related to your situation. I have had a few customers come with similar occurrences regarding SPS and have found a common theme of not using R/O water or TDS is creeping up. Just tasting our Calgary water you can discern the added chemicals our beloved municipality has generously added. Just a thought and sorry to hear of your SPS problems.
Kevin
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Thanks Kevin!! You know, it could be exactly that as I've been having some RO issues lately. Water comes out of the RO unit at 2 but in the garbage can it was 40, not sure if those numbers are really *that* bad but bad enough for me. I changed out all the filters (except for the DI and RO membrane) and it still comes out at 2 (not that I thought anything would be different but I couldn't remember when I had changed them last, they were pretty gunky). At one point it was 60 in the can so I turfed that water and cleaned out the can thoroughly. It now reads at 2 (so far, this will be the first waterchange post cleaning and its still filling. I've been filling a clean salt pail so that I can measure the TDS in small batches to make sure there isn't anything going on with the RO membrane. I'm still thinking the garbage can might be having issues but its one of those brute cans that are like $50 so I might just try using a garbage bag insert or something to keep whatever is in the brute from going into the water.
I'll have to be more diligent from now on, thats for sure! Thanks for the info!
