Does Edmonton water have phosphates?

[toytech]

ok so i did a quick test for you , phosphate of tap water was 0.25 and the total desolved solids was a whopping 175 ppm ( in abbotsford , bc it was 12ppm) . So there is phosphate in the water here as well as alot of other crap . I used straight tap water when i re setup my tank at the begining of june and had a bad hair algea outbreak , took me a bunch of ro/di water changes to get it under control. I love my ro/di unit , and i tapped into the line thats before the di resin to make drinking water and im so glad i did , i dont know how people here can drink this stuff!

[iceman86]

Originally Posted by toytech

ok so i did a quick test for you , phosphate of tap water was 0.25 and the total desolved solids was a whopping 175 ppm ( in abbotsford , bc it was 12ppm) . So there is phosphate in the water here as well as alot of other crap . I used straight tap water when i re setup my tank at the begining of june and had a bad hair algea outbreak , took me a bunch of ro/di water changes to get it under control. I love my ro/di unit , and i tapped into the line thats before the di resin to make drinking water and im so glad i did , i dont know how people here can drink this stuff!

Thank you so much. How bad is this amount of phosphates for corals? i have lps and 1 sps. I understand it should be 0 but should i be in panic mode to fix this? Everything in the tank seems fine at the moment.

[marie]

Originally Posted by toytech

ok so i did a quick test for you , phosphate of tap water was 0.25 and the total desolved solids was a whopping 175 ppm ( in abbotsford , bc it was 12ppm) . So there is phosphate in the water here as well as alot of other crap . I used straight tap water when i re setup my tank at the begining of june and had a bad hair algea outbreak , took me a bunch of ro/di water changes to get it under control. I love my ro/di unit , and i tapped into the line thats before the di resin to make drinking water and im so glad i did , i dont know how people here can drink this stuff!

Not all the dissolved solids can be called crap, some of it is calcium and other dissolved minerals.....

[marie]

iceman no need to panic, just run some GFO (phosphate remover) in a media reactor. Just about every food we add to our tank contains some phosphates......

[iceman86]

Originally Posted by marie

iceman no need to panic, just run some GFO (phosphate remover) in a media reactor. Just about every food we add to our tank contains some phosphates......

thanks marie

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by marie

iceman no need to panic, just run some GFO (phosphate remover) in a media reactor. Just about every food we add to our tank contains some phosphates......

+1 even with ro id still run gfo

[toytech]

i find if i have an ammount of phosphate i can detect .25 or higher i get algea issues like bryopsis. but the corals dont mind .Sps are the most sensative to phosphate and tend to brown out with higher nutrients.