johnsmith Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 What type of water are you using in your nano? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murminator Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 Good ol tap water here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnsmith Posted January 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 The reason I ask is that I'm leaning towards getting a 14g nano and I'm trying to determine what extra costs are going to pile up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 I use water from safeway for my 5.5g and tap for my 30. I'm planning on a ro/di unit but haven't gotten around to purchaing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainmaker69 Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Good old Lethbridge tapwater in my 33. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnsmith Posted February 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2007 Sounds like good news so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosshog Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Extra costs, in this hobby? NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!! Actually my Nano cube hasn't really cost me a whole lot more than the tank and stand itself. I already had an ro/di system, so I don't count that. Haven't modded the tank or lighting, yet. Start out slow, tank, LR, salt hydrometer/refractometer, good test kits. Go slow, nothing good happens in salt water fast, except troubles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishytime Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 (edited) Use ro/di water if you can. I started mt 20g with tap and experienced a heavy algae bloom. Have switched to distilled water from safeway since. Besides phosphates ro/di water will be free of all the other crap that gets put into our tap water. I used a jug and a half or so week between water changes and toping up ...so about $7-$8 a week. Edited February 21, 2008 by fishytime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Ram Posted March 11, 2008 Report Share Posted March 11, 2008 (edited) I'm using purchased jugs of RO water @ $5 a jug in a 34 gal. I change out one jug per week so it is costing me $20 a month. One of the reasons I'm selling my reef setup. In tanks this size, pristine water will help with numerous kinds of algae breakouts you can get. Edited April 2, 2008 by Blue Ram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amoreira Posted May 11, 2008 Report Share Posted May 11, 2008 (edited) I'm using purchased jugs of RO water @ $5 a jug in a 34 gal. I change out one jug per week so it is costing me $20 a month. One of the reasons I'm selling my reef setup. In tanks this size, pristine water will help with numerous kinds of algae breakouts you can get. Buy a RO system... They don't cost much. Don't bother with RO/DI if you intend to drink the water from the RO unit (good for coffee if you want to keep you coffee maker scale free). http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/store_p...ct_ID=ro-afd050 This one cost $174, but I picked one up from an LFS @ $99.00 which included prefilter, activated carbon and membrane. This will pay itself off in 8 months and the membrane will last you over a year (mine has been giving pristine water for over 14 months). I hook up an inline TDS meter (@ $40) to monitor the outgoing water. It shows consistently 0 mg/L TDS on the outlet and 137 mg/L TDS on the inlet (=tap) water. Phosphates should be less than 0.05 ppm in a reef aquarium and I used to have problems with it being over that when I was using tap water (not to mention the silicates). If you've a big aquarium the unit will pay for itself in one week LOL. Edited May 11, 2008 by amoreira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorenz0 Posted May 21, 2008 Report Share Posted May 21, 2008 Right now I am on just tap water. Its been 2 weeks and no issues but I just added my live rock today. My parents get RO water all the time, so I plan on switching over to that soon So far so good. But from what I know if you keep your GPH up you shouldn't have a problems with alge blooms Most people that seem to have run into that problem are only running 300gph in teir tank, right now i have 625gph. lol still not enought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayfong Posted May 21, 2008 Report Share Posted May 21, 2008 Started out with tap water, but now I'm using RO/DI water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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