Brita Water

Has anyone tried using a Brita filter for their aquarium water? My guess is that it is probably as good as most bottled waters, and better than tapwaters. Is it anywhere as good as R/O D/I? Is it worth the extra 125 bucks. What kind of difference is there?


Thanks for the input.


Aaron

 

I would recommend ro/di. It will cost you a fortune for brita filters to make frequent enough water changes. Not to mention questionable water quality. Look on ebay, I got a 6 stage ro/di for 140.00 shipped.

 

Brita is only a charcoal filter....it does not remove much.
I would say bottled water would be a big improvement.  Most are filtered or distilled.

RO/DI all the way!  Without one, you probably will be constanly fighting phosphates...which means hair algae and cyanobacteria. :-/

 

Thanks for the help. No Brita for me. Bottled water or R/O.



Aaron

 

Great choice ;D RO/DI Definitely 8) .... John

 

You need to be carefull with bottled water as many (well that is here in the UK!) have a high silica content (such as volvic) which will also give you major algae problems.

i would definately use ro/di....

levi