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Eshrimp Shrimp Lover

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Well as most of you have prob seen i bought my new best friend EC/TDS/SAL Pen. Since then i have been testing all the water i can get my hands on lol. Well my RO reservoir has slowly started to creep up the TDS reading so i decided to have a look at the filters even though i had changed the lot about 3 months ago. Here is what i found LOL.... Of to the Industrial filtering store i go... LOL

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So peoples CHECK YOUR FILTERS!!!! Lol

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BlueBolts Shrimp Guru

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Thanks for the thread, only 3 months, and the membrane got that dirty...wow....what's the TDS of your tap water?

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shrimpstan Shrimp Breeder

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crazy!! how much water do u think used over the last 3 months? must have super high tap TDS?

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Eshrimp Shrimp Lover

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My Autofill RO system stores about 250lts and i use about 400lts of RO every week. I use RO for my shrimp tanks, marine tanks water changes and ATO, and my fresh water racks. Our mains water comes out between 300-400 TDS but on bad days it can reach almost 500 tds so my RO membrane does work hard 24/7.

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holy sheep thats a lot of RO!! good to see ur getting ur monies worth :p

u must have an awesome set up!

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He does have the best setup I have ever seen, totally awesome. His marine tanks are beautiful ,the colour of the corals are vivid. I haven't seen any LFS have tanks as beautiful.Then don"t get me started on his Discus aww man they are beautiful. That shrimp tank Eshrimp has a journal about WOW there are so many beautiful shrimp in there and they all look so healthy. Just love it all:cheerful:

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I bought some RO water on friday and yestetday went to do a water change so tipped enough in a container prior to adding my shrimp minerals and tested with my tds pen and got a reading of 277. So I triple checked it and same reading. Anyway they will replace my water but seriously need to consider getting my own unit

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I bought some RO water on friday and yestetday went to do a water change so tipped enough in a container prior to adding my shrimp minerals and tested with my tds pen and got a reading of 277. So I triple checked it and same reading. Anyway they will replace my water but seriously need to consider getting my own unit

Did you use a container from where you got the water? Often marine guys just mix up their water in the lfs containers and can cause some issues.

If you can take your own container to get filled at least you know what it has been used for in the past.

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Yep my own container which I had only that morning emptied out the last of the RO water it held. ive got my tds pen with me so will be checking my refill prior to leaving this time.

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Wow... 277 tds from their RO.. did they mix up the waste water and good stuff?

What is the tds of your tapwater?

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He said that he did something to the filters right before filling my container. Makes me wonder who else got water after me and what did they get?

Normally RO from here I get is like 5ppm max

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my shrimp tank tds now 60ppm' date=' how to raise up / lower the tds?[/quote']

I use shrimpy minerals to raise my tds and just add pure RO to lower it. My natives tank is about 80 the crystals around 130 and cherries about 180

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Wow... 277 tds from their RO.. did they mix up the waste water and good stuff?

What is the tds of your tapwater?

Yep went back to the shop today and after they tested the water and then checked their system and seems someone has allegedly turned a valve some where and the waste water was coming thru instead of the real RO water. Problem solved but assume their would be a few people out there not aware of what they have bought. thankfully ive now located a place 10 mins from home and cheaper that can supply me 20 litres on a regular basis.

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