Aqua-Safe Advice

crusty1 · #1 09-15-2005, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by SJSobczyk

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Drinking RO/DI water is fine, a lot of bottled water in the store is DI water. You would only have to be worried if it was the only thing you drank/ate. (In which case you would have more serious problems to worry about)

Wait whats the problem with drinking RO/DI? Isnt the main purpose of these units for drinking water?

Thanks

Steve

I learned about this in an RO seminar for industrial water conditioning a couple of years ago. I can't explain it very well so I did some looking. Take it all with a grain of salt. http://www.waterionizer.org/site/898596/page/463876
I work in a boiler room that gets pretty hot in the summer, have you ever noticed that when you are hot and drink a lot of bottled water it never satisfies your thirst? I do, and now I make sure I mix the bottled water with a little gatorade. It makes a huge difference.
Is this bad for your fish? No, you cleaned all the gunk out with your RO/DI unit and replaced it with the salt mix, making ideal sea water for your tank!
There is a whole lot more to it with the chemistry and biology aspect I am no expert in either of these fields so I'll leave it up to you to decide!