Reverse Osmosis System

All,

I am currently intrested in purchasing a reverse osmosis system so
that I can crate "soft" water for my plants and rainforest fish. I
don't know if this is wise or not as I live in a one bedroom
apartment. Does anyone have any advice about this subject?

Thanks,

Keith

yeah, actually, I do have some advice...

There's a guy over in the marine newsgroups, Marc Levenson who sells the
stuff, I mean, he sells the 'system' and stuff... pretty cheap, simple and
he's a GREAT fella... always willing to help...

Personal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html
Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com
Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com

Browse the sites a bit, and you'll find a link to the RO/DI section, and
it's cost...

good luck...

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"Keith" wrote in message
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All,

I am currently intrested in purchasing a reverse osmosis system so
that I can crate "soft" water for my plants and rainforest fish. I
don't know if this is wise or not as I live in a one bedroom
apartment. Does anyone have any advice about this subject?

Thanks,

Keith

Keith wrote:

All,

I am currently intrested in purchasing a reverse osmosis system so
that I can crate "soft" water for my plants and rainforest fish. I
don't know if this is wise or not as I live in a one bedroom
apartment. Does anyone have any advice about this subject?

I breed sof****er fish in my plant tank, so I use reconstituted RO. But
it's a pain in the rear. If you must use it for your fish, great, that's
why I do it. If it's for your plants, forget it, 99.99999% of plants do
better in hard water.

an alternate source is ebay, look for aquasafe, my unit arived this
afternoon, cost me $81US for the 6 stage reef setup, damned thing is 90%
assembled too.

Dave Millman wrote in
:

Keith wrote:

All,

I am currently intrested in purchasing a reverse osmosis system so
that I can crate "soft" water for my plants and rainforest fish. I
don't know if this is wise or not as I live in a one bedroom
apartment. Does anyone have any advice about this subject?

I breed sof****er fish in my plant tank, so I use reconstituted RO. But
it's a pain in the rear. If you must use it for your fish, great, that's
why I do it. If it's for your plants, forget it, 99.99999% of plants do
better in hard water.

Dave Millman wrote in message ...
Keith wrote:

All,

I am currently intrested in purchasing a reverse osmosis system so
that I can crate "soft" water for my plants and rainforest fish. I
don't know if this is wise or not as I live in a one bedroom
apartment. Does anyone have any advice about this subject?

I breed sof****er fish in my plant tank, so I use reconstituted RO. But
it's a pain in the rear. If you must use it for your fish, great, that's
why I do it. If it's for your plants, forget it, 99.99999% of plants do
better in hard water.

Actually, I wanted to get one for my fish as well. I prefer to keep
small rainforest fish, characins, cyprinids and lampeyes mostly. I
started to aquire some plants that seem to only do well in soft water.

Keith

Keith wrote:

Actually, I wanted to get one for my fish as well. I prefer to keep
small rainforest fish, characins, cyprinids and lampeyes mostly. I
started to aquire some plants that seem to only do well in soft water.

That list is really short (less than 2% of all the plant species commonly kept in aquaria is my
understanding). The list of plants that will do POORLY in soft water is, to the chagrin of us sof****er
fans, much longer.

Dave Millman wrote in message ...
Keith wrote:

Actually, I wanted to get one for my fish as well. I prefer to keep
small rainforest fish, characins, cyprinids and lampeyes mostly. I
started to aquire some plants that seem to only do well in soft water.

That list is really short (less than 2% of all the plant species commonly kept in aquaria is my
understanding). The list of plants that will do POORLY in soft water is, to the chagrin of us sof****er
fans, much longer.

The choice for an RO is never for the plants, this is a fish decision.

There are no sof****er only plants. Not a one.
You may find them in soft water, but that means they are getting their
nutrients from the soil rather than the water column. Soft water is
not required for good plant growth, to say so is myth and can easily
be disproven, I've grown well over 200 species in very hard water, so
have many others.

If they do well in hard water how can one say this about "soft water
plants"?

RO taste good which is the main benefit for me.

Regards,
Tom Barr

RO taste good which is the main benefit for me.

Regards,
Tom Barr

Yes but,...... : ) its bad for your teeth!!!!
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**So long, and thanks for all the fish!**

Reverse osmosis RO is a filtering method to eliminate the many types of large molecules and ions from the solution of pressure solution, it is selective side of the membrane. As a result, the solute retained in the pressurized side of the membrane and allows the pure solvent to pass to each other.