distilled water for salt mix?

[Baboo]

Anyone experience with distilled water for salt mix before? Someone must have done this before.
RO/DI water will drip forever for my initial setup. I am thinking of buying the bottled distilled water.
Will it be low on PO4 and Si?

Thanks!

[fkadir]

Im using the bottled distilled water for water changes since the beginning of my tank. No problems with Si or PO4, in addition its TDS=0.

I would suggest getting a bottle first and test it thoroughly. Cheers

[majesticangelfish]

Anyone experience with distilled water for salt mix before? Someone must have done this before.
RO/DI water will drip forever for my initial setup. I am thinking of buying the bottled distilled water.
Will it be low on PO4 and Si?

Thanks!

Why not spend that money on upgrading the RO/DI (anion/cation etc)? That way you would have better water, not just as a "one off".

[Baboo]

Hi Josh,
Yes, i will be using the RO/DI after the initial setup. I just don't want to wait for 5 days for the RO/DI unit to make up 260G water.
I will get a bottle and test it. Thanks!

[gqjeff]

Baboo, I did excalty that and had no problems either.. Mine tested 0 TDS as well... I was like you I could not wait a few days for the tank to fill up heheheh..

Jeff

[DMK]

i used only bottled distilled for first 1.5 years. investing in a RODI unit was probably 1 of my best purchases.
distilled works fine, just a PITA running from store to store wiping out all their distilled gallon jugs.

[joe]

new here,
but i also used botlled water for a whole year a while back, and it worked great, RO/DI is a good investment if you can layout the cash all at once.
though the dstld water was perfect.
BOB i sent you an email by the way.

joe

[Orion76]

Be careful, some bottled distilled water contains copper in amounts that are too high for reeftanks due to the equipment used to distill the water.

[Baboo]

Be careful, some bottled distilled water contains copper in amounts that are too high for reeftanks due to the equipment used to distill the water.

ah.. ha...!
This is what I want to see. Thanks!