Rainsoft water purification system

[Chessman]

Does anyone have one of these? I'm getting one today, and would like to use this water for my tanks. I currently use untreated well water. It's a whole house system. What do I need to check before using it?

Chessman, not familiar with this unit. Sounds like a water softener setup. These usually work be the action of ion exchange resins, subbing sodium ions for excess calcium etc. Does it use any type of carbon prefilter? That would take care of alot of the nastys like groundwater contaminates, Check the output water for general Hardness, nitrate, and phosphate flow thru. Personally if it were me I would at the very least use a Tap Water Purifier for all reef water, and I'd probably bite the bullet and have the treated water from the Rainsoft analyzed by a profesional water quality lab so you know whats in it and establish a baseline for further tests. Sounds like it may help with water quality for the house, but I dont think by itself its gonna provide the water purity we require for reefkeeping. Like so many when I started reefing I tryed to do it on the cheap and struggled with alot of water related problems till I broke down and got my RO. I use the TWP on the output of that and its really cut down on the algae problems that plagued me early on, FWIW

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[Chessman]

I do know that the water is passed through an ultrafine (.5 micron?) filter as well as superactivated carbon, etc. The purity of this water next to mine was actually visible to the naked eye (not to mention the tests he ran). I had a pitcher of their water saved and was going to test with my water test kit, but my son dumped it out . There is a place in town that analyzes water, I think I'll head out there Monday.

I'm also going to have Rainsoft leave the spigot by our well on the old system so if worse comes to worst, I still have the same ole same ole.