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Old 04-24-2014, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by StirCrazy View Post
the RO membrane its self will reduce ammonia to very low levels, depending on the PH of the water, design of the membrane and such, I supose if you still have residual ammonia you coudl use a DI, or other softener type ion-exchange. but to say the ammonia carries on throught the RO untouched is not right at all.

Steve
I have seen this in my own fish only systems that get RO with no DI filtering. After carbon my tap water usually has about 2 ppm ammonia. After the RO membrane there is still 2 ppm ammonia that I use a detoxifier on. I'm using dual 150 gpd 98% rejection membranes.



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