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Re: [Killietalk] Re: R/O Question

I don't have to worry about the "wife rule" but the floor space rule always applies. If I were lookaing at water storage, Jehmco has 375 & 400 gallon storage tanks that take up about as much floor space as my 2 55 gallon drums. Much more expensive, but more space efficient and designed to fit through doors. Worth looking at, IMHO.



Drummond Howard
Gaithersburg, Maryland





From: Larry Botkin <larbot at jorsm_com>
Reply-To: killifish discussion list <killietalk at aka_org>
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: [Killietalk] Re: R/O Question
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:11:33 -0500

First of all, thanks to everyone for the answers. In my current setup I do use warmer water and have sufficient pressure to more than generate enough for my soft water killis. I am thinking about when I move next year and get into an area where water rationing may be in effect at various times of the year and I have to be a lot more efficient. I was trying to figure if there might be ways to lessen the overall waste water by running another R/O unit using the waste from the first one that as the feed source..

I figure that there is a "wife rule" as to how many water storage tanks I can have on the property to store waste and R/O water so I'm just brain storming and looking for possible ways to improve the fishroom operation without resorting to a municipal type tank at 40 feet :-) ... This will be the first time I can design the fishroom from scratch and not have to work around pre-existing conditions.

Thanks Again

Larry Botkin
AKA 07801
CKA (ChiKA)
WAKO


At 08:40 PM 9/23/03 -0400, you wrote: 
Message: 11
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:02:03 -0700
From: Wright Huntley <jwwiii at pacbell_net>
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] R/O Question
To: killifish discussion list <killietalk at aka_org>

Good advice, Bill.

A point often overlooked is that better RO units have an automatic
cutoff switch that shuts off inlet water when the little pressure tank
is filled. This saves huge amounts of water over simpler units that run
all the time, whether producing RO water or not.

I have had both kinds, and the waste difference is enormous.

Wright

Bill Wallace wrote:

> You might be better to pressurize and warm the water to increase the
> efficiency of the R/O unit.  Another option is to only use the R/O
> water for some of your fish tanks that need it, and just use a
> regular filter unit for everything else.
>
> Bill.
>
> To join the AKA see http://www.aka.org/pages/join.html
>

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