Recent content by rds5150

Just opened a box from True North, everything went fine.

Chloramines should be of concern to aquarists because they are toxic to fish and reef organisms present in the aquarium. Chloramine use in the United States has significantly increased as a disinfectant over the last several years. More than thirty percent of all municipal water systems now...

Sorry Guy's I done pulled a FuBar............................ This is just my usual hangout, and it ain't got shit to with organics........Da... enjoy r

Do I need to paint white 10gal. buckets black for soil, as I understand you do with hydro. thanks r

Hey Seamaiden what about replacing the trace elements that an ro/di filter removes. for herb. with my ro/di , i get almost 0ppm w/di , and around 2-8ppm ro, thats in a big city w/chloramines wow i just had an epiphany, my waste water from the ro should be chloramine free, so instead...

hey bud you may want to run up to home depot and get you a 4" round steel box that has a 1/2" threaded hole in back of it, a 1/2" close nipple and a 1/2" cord relief fitting to go in one of the side holes in the box. screw the nipple in the fixture, screw the box on the nipple, screw the cord...

"We do disinfect the water in [town deleted]. We use 10% Liquid Sodium Hypochlorite at approximately 1.0 ppm. This generally gives the residents around a 0.5 ppm or less at their meter." I am not a scientist or chemical dude in any way, so here goes Liquid Sodium Hypochlorite looks like...

bagelthief yes, ro water has diminished quantities of all trace minerals, that's why your tds meter should be reading from 2 to 10 ppm for your ro output. yes, you need to replace these. i'm just getting into growing, so i'm the wrong one to ask as far which one's and how much, i'm sure...

Hey Bagalthief if you have a R.O. setup, you do not want any chlorine getting to the R.O. membrane, that is what the two pre-filters are for, to remove all the chlorine and large sediment. the first filter removes sediment, the second chlorine + sediment, the third everything that is left...