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03-17-2004, 05:12 PM
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Reef Yahooligan
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Odenton, MD
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Distilled Water?
What's the difference between Distilled and Deionized?
Safe to use Distilled in tank?
WG
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03-17-2004, 05:52 PM
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shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: south of the north pole
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distilled is water that has been boiled to evaporation and recondesned into a liquid. it has no dissolved minerals, and i would say that it is better than ro/di, imo.
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03-17-2004, 05:57 PM
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Crazed Fish Whisperer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Be careful, most places that distill water use copper piping. (From what I have read).
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03-17-2004, 06:43 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: South Cali
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Distilled is very clean but its not to cheap either if you buy it in bottles, the places that sell it out of faucets usuaully have copper piping like stated in the previous post....
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03-17-2004, 07:05 PM
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Oh no...not again!!!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Colorado Springs
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Our Arrowhead guy at work says he can sell them to me for five bucks a five gallon bottle when I fire up the office tank.
Phishnoob
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03-17-2004, 07:15 PM
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Reef Yahooligan
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Odenton, MD
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I just picked up Distilled water at Food Lion for $.61 per gallon?
It was $.99 at SuperFresh.
I was looking for RO or DI water and bought it at the 61 cents figuring I could water the plants with it or fill my car battery (again and again and again)
I had heard the Metro carrier RO water, but they got bought by Shoppers Food Warehouse.
So good deal?
Since I had a 5 gallon change to do, its not too bad. I bought an extra for top off.
WG
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- My Tank - 65G Plenum 80lbs LR 5G HOB CPR Fuge, 2x175W HQI w/2x65W Actinics, Prizm Pro - My Gallery
- My Nano - 8G Oceanic BioCube - Fish and Rock and Corals oh MY! - Pix Updated
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03-17-2004, 10:19 PM
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Master of Perplexity
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: panama city beach FL
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Opinions aside, RO/DI is normally better quality than distilled. Distilling carries over materials in the feed water, maintaining the contamination. Gases like carbon dioxide and ammonia present in the raw water that is distilled are carried right over, plus the condensation process scrubs the air it passes through, rinsing it clean of contaminants.
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03-18-2004, 05:37 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: South Cali
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Whoa Phishnob thats an awesome price I have arrowhead to, I'm going to ask even though I have an Ro/DI unit just as a backup it would be nice to have 10-15 gallons or so.....wo 5.99 for 10 gallons thats awesome
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03-18-2004, 07:13 PM
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Oh no...not again!!!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Colorado Springs
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Yep lot cheaper RUHS if you get a cool delivery guy...they can set prices and do it. I am not sure if they will give you a break if you get residential only...this is rolled in with our business water delivery.
Phishnoob
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03-18-2004, 07:43 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: South Cali
Posts: 1,542
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My mom has a bussiness about a mile from here (a preschool) and its the same delivery guy that comes to the house, I've known him since I was 2
maybe I can get a hook up.....
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03-18-2004, 07:55 PM
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Oh no...not again!!!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Colorado Springs
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We are down in South OC so a different branch of the company probably supplies the water. The guy just came in yesterday RUHS so it will be close to two weeks for the next round. I will send you a copy of an invoice for this to work him a little bit. Another good thing to do is get the Sparkletts guy and Arrowhead both on the job and let them beat each other to a pulp on pricing.
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03-18-2004, 08:48 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: South Cali
Posts: 1,542
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Yeah my mom did that had two different architects come at once to redesign our pool....man were they going at it...
thanks
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