Tap WATA (water)

[caferacermike]

I was going to say Buckeye.

The units on Ebay are junk. The filters ARE crup!. I bought a nice second hand unit and bought new filters from Ebay, cost me $100 for 3 complete sets. Bargain, h-e double hockey sticks no. I was getting 75TDS out of my final water. It was seriously funny reading the bunk they wrote on the filters in broken stop engrish. Garbage.

For the SAME money I could have bought GENUINE DOW FILMTECH from Buckeye. I bought yet another second hand unit, even with used Dow membranes and slightly used DI resin I got 000TDS from the same source.

IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

Buckeye sells an economy unit for about $125 75GPD with GENUINE FILMTECH membranes and high quality DI resins. That beats ANY $99 Ebay special everyday.

[caferacermike]

Oh and I'm sure Russ from Buckeye will chime in any moment, not an official sponsor of the site but the guy finds time to visit us and straighten out our messes with RO units here at MAAST. Show me one Ebay retailer that has ever walked us through our issues.

I wholeheartedly plan to replace the 4 spun/carbon filters, 3 100GPD DOW RO membranes and 3 huge canisters of DI resin from them before I fill the 400g tank.

[mattymalcolm]

i used tap water in the past and had an algae bloom all my water turned green and killed a bunch of stuff and also i got crazy hair algae. River city charges a $1 for a 5 gallon for di water thats the best bet if you dont have a ro di. Purley h2o has good deals on ro di units.

[Bill S]

Mike, I hear you. HOWEVER, I've used the guys at www.aquasafecanada.com for several years, with OUTSTANDING support AND good quality products. Is he slightly more expensive than the others? Yup. But his filters, components, membranes and SUPPORT are very good.

I'm also surprised that Russ from Buckeye hasn't chimed in. Their support is just plain outstanding, and if I were buying again, I'd certainly consider going there.

[crossxfire2]

So the buckeye would definatly be the way to go?

[erikharrison]

I got it from Michael. I think he sent me all of the specs but I deleted them. :( The 15th, I'll hopefully have recovered from all of this Christmas spending

[demodiki]

I just got the Value system from Buckeye after struggling with the $99 Ebay special for 3 years...I don't know why I put myself through all that heart ache. I think it came to something like $138 shipped.

Great product.

[razermouse]

I bought my RO/DI unitt from one of our members- Marc Levenson (www.melevsreef.com). It was an easy install. My thought process was that if I use a product endorsed by a guy with a killer reef system like his, I couldn't go wrong.

I was buying water premade from Aquarium Designs for changes to my 28 gallon. The other nice benefit from the unit is having high quality drinking water for my family.

[BuckeyeHydro]

Have we been a sponsor for that long? Yeow!