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View Poll Results: Do you use RODI water and is it better?
Yes and I always have so I dont have a comparison 48 47.52%
Yes and I noticed a difference by switching 32 31.68%
Yes but Ive never really noticed a difference from when I didnt 2 1.98%
No I never have and Im hoping this poll will help me decide 15 14.85%
I used to and now I stopped, didnt really notice any ill effects 4 3.96%
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Old 03-09-2015, 11:34 PM
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I've always used ro water at the least but the one time I used tap they were fixing plumbing around my neighbourhood and I didn't know, so it crashed my tank and I lost slot of very nice corals. Not worth chancing in my opinion. However In the past 3 weeks my tapwater is testing at 3ppm so it's pretty damn clean.

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Old 03-10-2015, 03:07 AM
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I'm assuming this is in relation to reef tanks? I use tap water in most fish only systems and it works just fine. I've used RO/DI for the last 15 years or so.
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Old 03-10-2015, 05:28 PM
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Yes full reef tank, although good to know about fish only.
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My TDS runs about 8 to 10 so, I use it for my top off only.

For my 55 gal salt mix, I add Prime or Amquel to get rid of the chloramine. BRS did a study and it found that almost all brands of carbon did pretty much nothing to take out the chloramine, which can be deadly to the livestock.
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