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05-29-2007, 06:00 PM
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Caitlin Renee 6/29/07
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finally.......
i may have found a new place to live where i can set my tank back up. but what i am leary of is that it has well water.... how well will a r/o unit work with well water? and how will i know if the well water would be bad for the tank, and what should i be looking for?
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05-29-2007, 06:03 PM
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Carpe Noctem
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Western Colorado
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A quality RO/DI unit will be fine.
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05-29-2007, 06:04 PM
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Caitlin Renee 6/29/07
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will it remove chlorine if it is present?
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90g RR w/30g custom sump,30# Kaelini,30# Marshall,20# Uaniva,20# Tonga Branch,2 6045s,1 Seio 820,Milwaukee pH monitor,Milwaukee ORP monitor,(2) 150w Ebo Jager heaters,PanWorld 50px return pump, 2x54w T5 w/individual SLR IC reflectors,2x250w XM 10k w/ARO 250w electronic ballast,Reef Octopus NW200 skimmer
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05-29-2007, 06:08 PM
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Carpe Noctem
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Yup  But if it's well water, you won't have any. Worse case scenario is that the well water is really hard or dirty and you will want to add a softner to your home and/or a couple sedimate cartridges to your whole house. Easy to do both and both will help the RO/DI system
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05-29-2007, 06:10 PM
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Caitlin Renee 6/29/07
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would i be anle to just run my ro unit then check the water with a TDS meter and see what the meter reads? and then i guess take it from there
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90g RR w/30g custom sump,30# Kaelini,30# Marshall,20# Uaniva,20# Tonga Branch,2 6045s,1 Seio 820,Milwaukee pH monitor,Milwaukee ORP monitor,(2) 150w Ebo Jager heaters,PanWorld 50px return pump, 2x54w T5 w/individual SLR IC reflectors,2x250w XM 10k w/ARO 250w electronic ballast,Reef Octopus NW200 skimmer
still a work in progress, but getting ever so close
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05-29-2007, 06:12 PM
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Carpe Noctem
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Yes. Depending how things are plumbed from the well to your faucet, may determin whether you need a booster pump or not. The first house I owned was on well water and I only had about 25psi at the tap. So I needed a booster pump.
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05-29-2007, 06:14 PM
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Saltwater Mom
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If your lfs has a meter and they should, get them to test the well water. I have a very deep well and it test 2 according to them and said I really didn't need to get ro/di water from them anymore. My city water was nasty and didn't dare drink or use it in my tank. I got fed up with dealing with city water dept. got my well fixed and took the water to get tested. Last think I expected to find was it was pretty pure. Never will pay for water again. I took the water in to find out what kind of ro/di unit to buy but they said I didn't need one. I do still plan on getting one later just because 0 is even better than 2, but for now I am spending money on the 175 so I can get it running.
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05-29-2007, 06:18 PM
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Carpe Noctem
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I would still run a RO at the least with well water. Being fed from underground streams and everything else, it's hard to say what hard metals and impurities it may pick up along it's journey
I'm just one of the safer than sorry kind of folks 
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05-29-2007, 06:19 PM
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Carpe Noctem
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Oh and my TDS out of my well was about 450
On the city water it's about 450... Sheesh!
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05-29-2007, 07:58 PM
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Welcome Back DB! I use a RO/DI filter on out well water TDS in almost 400 out Zero
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