Tap Water Purifier

[MolaMola]

An oldie but a goodie, but only if you have old school chlorine in your water and low TDS (no RO). NOT EFFECTIVE WITH CHLORAMINE (need a carbon block).
Used this for years with my home reef tank and packed the cylinder with bulk carbon and DI resins.

YES, lemons are included!
Prefer a supporting member. In Pleasant Hill, but happy to bring to future club event.

You just need to add a faucet adapter:

 

[Wlachnit]

At the Steinhart last Saturday, we learned that they just purify their water with lots of carbon.

 

[ashburn2k]

At the Steinhart last Saturday, we learned that they just purify their water with lots of carbon.

SW In the tank or RODI?


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[Wlachnit]

SW In the tank or RODI?


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They pump in city water, filter it through carbon before they use it to make SW.

 

[Flagg37]

Hetch Hetchy water is surprisingly clean.

Did they say what percentage of water they change out and how often they do water changes?

That could be a huge amount of water.

 

[sfsuphysics]

They pump in city water, filter it through carbon before they use it to make SW.

Wonder how much the spent on a pipe going out to the ocean to bring in water before they abandoned that idea and went to Instant Ocean, or if that pipe was part of the old Academy

 

[MolaMola]

You got me all interested in history of Steinhart’s seawater. Quick search reveals:
Ocean pipeline 1961-62 (p.19-20):
https://books.google.com/books?id=f...nhart aquarium ocean pipe water built&f=false

Ditched it in current museum:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sf...arium-s-unexpected-virtue-drought-5645418.php

Probably more to the story inbetween.

 

[Wlachnit]

Wonder how much the spent on a pipe going out to the ocean to bring in water before they abandoned that idea and went to Instant Ocean, or if that pipe was part of the old Academy

That pipe was part of the old building. According to Charles Delbeek, they abandoned using NSW because it was really high in phosphates and ammonia. go figure....

 

[sfsuphysics]

That pipe was part of the old building. According to Charles Delbeek, they abandoned using NSW because it was really high in phosphates and ammonia. go figure....

hahaha, yeah... sure you want to believe those SF sewage people when they say that water going out is cleaner than the water you drink?

 

[RandyC]

Hetch Hetchy water is surprisingly clean.

Did they say what percentage of water they change out and how often they do water changes?

That could be a huge amount of water.

Their main reef display is around 200,000 gallons I believe. I think they said they have been doing about two 15,000 gallon changes a week because both their skimmers have been offline for about 5 weeks.

 

[RandyC]

At the Steinhart last Saturday, we learned that they just purify their water with lots of carbon.

Lots of carbon is an understatement, they have two ginormous room sized vats of carbon they filter the water through. I think they said they have four 15,000 gallon storage tanks under their mixing room.