Water filter?

Damn the chlorine filters are as much as an RO is, it took me so long to save up the money for the RO now I need something else... Well shit

Can you collect rainwater?

I can but the whether is often very dry where I live, in the last 3 months there has been one day of rain which lasted like an hour or two

Rrog said:

http://www.hydrologicsystems.com/products/index.php?id=35&keywords=De-Chlorinators

Double check what you have since they have several chlorine filters.

It's common to think that carbon adsorbs everything, since it's such a great adsorber. But Chloramine isn't one of those items. I had to Google it to prove it to myself, but it's true. But it's s simple filter that could be added to your existing rig. Just insert a cloramine filter somewhere in your filter chain.

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The RO system that I'm using is equipped with the same carbon and sediment filters that are on all of the declorinators in the link. Sorry, I don't want to be a bother, I'm just having a hard time wrapping my mind around all these filters.

It would be best to maybe contact them, but a chloramine / chlorine filter I believe would be labeled as such. Like right on the cartridge.

The RO I decided to get which was the only one my hydro store had I believe is called the active aqua RO-3100q. Anyone heard of these before?

Is that 3100 quarts? less then 1000 gallons?

This is a link to my journal where I have been working a small grow fighting the same issue.
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/706925-my-first-organic-grow-1000-a.html

I'm not sure, I literally cannot find one bit of information about this thing online, kinda starting to think I got ripped off, and is it normal for the RO to make like 10x more the waste water than the good water?

A chloramine filter is just a catalytic carbon filter that breaks the bonds of ammonia and chlorine, which make chloramine. The RO membrane will remove most of it afterwards. Adding DI resin will remove it all before it exits the filter. Once you have broken the bonds, chlorine can be vented in the atmosphere by letting it sit for a day, and ammonia is actually a food source for plants in low numbers (nitrogen). A 5 stage 75GPD RO filter will remove the vast majority of bad stuff from the water, DI resin will remove almost all of the rest, but for drinking and using on plants in soil, RO is what you want. You don't want to drink RO/DI as it will actually take out minerals from your body.

Yes, most RO and RO/DI filters have around a 95% rejection rate, meaning 95% of the water will be waste water while 5% will be clean water, which is why it takes so long to make.

www.thefilterguys.biz and www.bulkreefsupply.com are the 2 places I order all my RO/DI filters from.

I've not seen any lab data saying RO water leaches. I know that's a common assertion. Maybe I haven't looked very hard. It's been a while. The thought is that it pulls it into your urine? So I wonder what happens when humans drink rain water for extended periods?

There is a big difference between RO water, rain water, and DI water. First 2 are healthy for humans and drinkable, last one isn't. Rain water is more like dirty RO water.

DI water is different. Sorry about that. I thought you were saying RO was bad. I wouldn't drink DI water, either. Sorry for the confusion.

I would also completely agree that rain is like dirty RO water. Pollution is the sad variable.

I love growing with it, though. The Blumats are clean as a whistle all the time.