Testosterone in the water supply? Wow who would have thought? Thanks for sharing! I moved to a different location 5 years ago and have some screwy water from the small town water company. TDS averages just above 100, GH - 0, KH - 0, pH -6.8, small trace of chlorine (can't remember reading). I've been in the hobby for 54+ years and successfully bred all kinds of fish. I started experiencing strange loses so contacted my water company. The water comes from a local river, goes through a sand filled cistern filter system. They told me all they add is chlorine to kill bacteria and an undisclosed chemical to prevent the really old pipes through out the town. They sent an independent tester to run my water through a complete test. It was deemed safe. I still haven't been able to find out what that mystery chemical is. I grew up in CT for most of my life and the water was perfect, but here in NH it's a different story.
Yeah we were pretty surprised about what was in the water as well. They will be doing another city water inspection this year here, I wonder what it will be after that. What is funny here is that the city uses Chlorine to treat bacteria in the water, but when I ran the test for chlorine on the water out of the tap it was showing 0 ppm. So not sure if it is sitting for 24+ hours before it gets to us, but we thought that was odd as well. Being deemed safe is a very vague term, are they saying safe based on FDA standards, or are they going by a different set of standards? Because Ohio deems their water safe, but it is far from actually being safe, lol.
I would say that we produced around 1300 gallons of RO water the first year. We recently moved to a new state and have almost finished fully setting up our new fish room. In our new location we will most likely not use the RO device unless absolutely necessary. We decided to seek our and breed fish that work with the water we have available. The water here is a little harder than where we were in Ohio.
Testosterone in the water supply? Wow who would have thought? Thanks for sharing!
I moved to a different location 5 years ago and have some screwy water from the small town water company. TDS averages just above 100, GH - 0, KH - 0, pH -6.8, small trace of chlorine (can't remember reading). I've been in the hobby for 54+ years and successfully bred all kinds of fish. I started experiencing strange loses so contacted my water company. The water comes from a local river, goes through a sand filled cistern filter system. They told me all they add is chlorine to kill bacteria and an undisclosed chemical to prevent the really old pipes through out the town. They sent an independent tester to run my water through a complete test. It was deemed safe. I still haven't been able to find out what that mystery chemical is. I grew up in CT for most of my life and the water was perfect, but here in NH it's a different story.
Yeah we were pretty surprised about what was in the water as well. They will be doing another city water inspection this year here, I wonder what it will be after that. What is funny here is that the city uses Chlorine to treat bacteria in the water, but when I ran the test for chlorine on the water out of the tap it was showing 0 ppm. So not sure if it is sitting for 24+ hours before it gets to us, but we thought that was odd as well. Being deemed safe is a very vague term, are they saying safe based on FDA standards, or are they going by a different set of standards? Because Ohio deems their water safe, but it is far from actually being safe, lol.
@@NoobAquatics I don't trust anyone's term of safe. LOL
Lol, that is the safe way to do it.
I have 2 ?'s > after 1 year, how much RO water did you produce weekly ?, do you still use this RO rig or have you upgraded ?
I would say that we produced around 1300 gallons of RO water the first year. We recently moved to a new state and have almost finished fully setting up our new fish room. In our new location we will most likely not use the RO device unless absolutely necessary. We decided to seek our and breed fish that work with the water we have available. The water here is a little harder than where we were in Ohio.