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05-22-2008, 04:20 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Chattanooga, TN
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If I dont have an RO/DI unit or a LFS that sells water, Can I use distilled water from the grocery store? _________  55 G, with 40lbs LR, 40lbs live sand, Tomato clown, Sixline wrasse, Aussie Duncan, Frogspawn, zoas, blastomussa wellsi, skunk cleaner shrimp, 4 astrea snails, 1 turbo, 12 hermits, 216wt T5HO lighting, Maxijet 600 (modified), Koralia 1, Emporer 280 filter x2. Born from my 20g on 6/8/08. Always a work in progress. | 
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05-22-2008, 05:44 PM
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| | Fire Goby
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Garden Creek,VA
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Originally Posted by tarheel  If I dont have an RO/DI unit or a LFS that sells water, Can I use distilled water from the grocery store? | Well yeah! | |
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05-22-2008, 05:45 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: niles, ohio Age: 32
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Yep!! I've done it before.... _________ My Tank Thread...... EST. 10/30/07 5.5 gal, 72watt's of pc's, rio skimmer, hob rated at 40 gal, stealth heater, b/w aussie clown, emerald crab, turbo, bumble bee, astrea, and nassarius snails, aussie open brain, pink birdsnest, wallhammer, multiple acro's, numerous monti's, zoa's, palys, ppd's, duncans, mint gsp's, reg gsp's, blue clove polyps, grn bali slimer, and tons of ppl sponges. | |
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05-22-2008, 05:52 PM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Weston, Florida Age: 29
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Originally Posted by tarheel If I dont have an RO/DI unit or a LFS that sells water, Can I use distilled water from the grocery store? | yeah, but see make sure it says purified by reverse osmosis, cause i know publix down here sells like 4 different types of water but only one is RO. and it's almost double in $ then what LFS sells it for. _________ 75gal hex, 2-40w T12 48", odyssea 48" 4x65w PC's w/ lunars, 50lbs LR, 80lbs LS, gold banded maroon clown, dog faced puffer, juvenile blue angel, 2 dominoes, 1-4 stripe damsel, yellow watchman gobie, lawnmower blenny, mano, purple chromis, striped grouper, mexican turbo, astrea and red foot snails, striped, red and blue legged hermit crabs, coral banded shrimp, white and purple bubble coral(very little), red and green mushrooms, orange gorgonian, candycane  Tanks, No Thanks. We Free Dive! | |
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05-22-2008, 05:52 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Absolutely, but it would be alot cheaper to buy a RO/DI...it will save you alot of money in the long run | |
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05-23-2008, 03:45 AM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Midlands,UK
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+1 as i have found out... _________ Hardware-55G Rena Md,Filstar XP3 Filter, 200w Heater, 1xSeio 2, 1xKoralia 2, Lee's Medium Skimmer, 8x39watt T5 Fish-Yellow Tang, Coral Beauty, Midas Blenny, Clown, Chalk Goby Inverts-Snails, Hermits, Black Long Spine Sea Urchin, Blue Linika StarFish, Cleaner Shrimp, Coral Banded Shrimp, Feather Duster, Green Bubble Tip Anemone, Coral's-Green/Purple/Hairy Mushroom's, Xenia, Button, Green, Yellow Polyps, Toadstool Leather,Finger Leather, Purple tip Frogspawn.  | |
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05-23-2008, 07:25 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 39
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You absolutely have to know how the water is distilled before you use it. If it was distilled using copper tubing, you will kill all of the inverts in your tank if you add it. | |
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05-23-2008, 08:03 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Louisville, KY ( derby town ) Age: 40
Posts: 980
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Originally Posted by amcarrig You absolutely have to know how the water is distilled before you use it. If it was distilled using copper tubing, you will kill all of the inverts in your tank if you add it. |
Tottaly agree, There's so many distilling practices and companys that claim
it's "distilled" or purified water , when it fact it can be carrying high levels of hevey metals .
When in doubt ,don't do it ! And buy a decent ro/di unit ASAP, | |
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