My tap water here isn't that bad, around 125 TDS. I have a RO/DI system to make water for my reef tank so I split a line out after the RO filter, before the DI resin that runs to my refrigerator for drinking water and ice. It drops the water down to around 5 TDS.
I only drink rainwater which i have near me, it has 1 TDS and most important is that you know and feel when you drink it, it's really fresh and energetic. I sometimes go to the woods near me, i have fresh spring water there, also amazing.
Reverse Osmosis is good for cities, TDS drops to 10, and it's soft and cleaner, but there is no freshness or energy, you just feel the difference compared to rainwater or spring water which revives you.
The chance of rainwater having 1 TDS is next to none. With the world we live in, it's always going to pick up pollution.
One day I was talking to a Waster Waste Management guy
And he tossed me this nugget:
If does not matter how clean your water source is, if its been run through a bunch of old dirty pipes.
I only drink rainwater which i have near me, it has 1 TDS and most important is that you know and feel when you drink it, it's really fresh and energetic. I sometimes go to the woods near me, i have fresh spring water there, also amazing.
Yep, I get pretty much everything from BRS. I have a few good LFS around me that I grab sediment filters from since they are cheap and generally not worth having to ship. When anyone asks me on how to set up a water filter system I point them to BRS instead of the solutions on Amazon.125tds is a FW neocaradina (cherry) shrimp keepers dream. That’s perfect.
I use ro/di and remineralize with a Salty Shrimp product to get back to 125tds on my shrimp tank.
Do you get your stuff from Bulk Reef Supply?
Both boiling water and letting it sit will let chloring evaporate out, so this could be part of the difference. Boiling ten minutes will get most of the chlorine out, and letting it sit a couple of days will also let most of it evaporate.I have an inline water filter because the tap would usually have a heavy chlorine smell prior to this. And lately, with this issue, the water smells a wet dog. So I boiled the tap water forgetting about the filter, and put it in pitchers in the fridge. Tastes just like the deer park water coolers at work. Think I'll just do this going forward regardless of when they fix it.
Both boiling water and letting it sit will let chloring evaporate out, so this could be part of the difference. Boiling ten minutes will get most of the chlorine out, and letting it sit a couple of days will also let most of it evaporate.
I'm on the Southwest side of Michigan, in Holland. I have a well thats 150' deep. Our water is a bit hard, but it does taste pretty good. I used to live in town and that shit smelled like Clorox bleachI live in Wayne County in Michigan. I don't trust that shit at all.