What should i buy to purify my water?

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by sphelps

Maybe but I find it strange that you used that particular example for a comparison, especially since you admit to having very little knowledge about the subject. I think I know what you were going for and maybe you think I'm contradicting myself as you feel I'm wasteful and do the unnecessary but either way I don't think it was necessary.

Sorry you have me a little confused, why would I think that your wasteful? If anything out of the conversation I appear wasteful with advocating the use of a RO system.

Originally Posted by sphelps

I use an RO-DI unit to bring my tap water TDS down from around 200ppm to about 2-3ppm. The filtered water is feed directly to the tank.

Seems you have the same problem as me, In Calgary we have pretty bad TDS and a whack load of chlorine in our tap water so an RO system is very useful. Maybe its just me (and perhaps because I have lived in Calgary for 19 years) but it scares me to put tap water strait into my tank as I don't know for a 100% fact what's in that water. Even with people that naturally have tap water with low TDS, adding only R/O water to tank is just one more step for protection of our mini oceans. What happens if that person with 20 ppm TDS has a crazy amount of run off in there area and for some reason it jumps to 200 PPM?
Levi