i have a few questions about water. I've seen posts about water (mainly dealing with cal-mag issues) before. My question or questions have to do with water storeage. In the discusions about cal-mag isuues, many thought water out of the tap is better than RO water, mainly because Ro water contais no calcium. I've been useing Ro for years (mainly buying gallons of distilled water) which has worked great, but costs are becoming a factor. I recently tested my water out of the tap and the PH was about 6.5 to 6.7. Don't know PPM. I noticed on Subs video he had a blue barrell that looked like a water storeage tank by his outdoor garden. Then on his last video he talked about using water staight out of his tap since the Ph was acceptable for him. Now my questions. If you use a storeage device to store water, do you need a airator? I assuse using a water tank to let the chlorline disapate (over a few days?) is the best way? Also do you need to cover the storeage tank to keep algea from forming? This is an issue I have great interest in, so any advise would be greatly appeciated.
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Nice Ol Bud
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Some city water has chlorine it in.
And other parts of the country has hard water.. Which contains too much iron.
That's all you really got to worry for.
kushking42
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u can aerate the water to keep it fresh leave the lid off to dissipate the chlorine. 24 hr with no air pump, maybe 30 min if you have a a big air pump. instead of storing your water you could have it on demand with a carbon/sediment filter. sub has a well. so he doesnt have chlorine. he runs a sediment filter an waters with a wand straight from the well.
cannabineer
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Imo knowing the ppm is important. Very hard water will shed lime on standing, and could induce lockout in a controlled grow. To prevent algae, exclude all light. cn
jimmy1life
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Hey man im in a little appartment and all my water pipes are copper. I was buying water for awhile too some times spliting my 440 ppm hard water with ro water. Hell the RO machine at walmart had 120 ppm. But i found a portable ro unit that slaps right to my sink takes few hours but= works. It was 75 bones ive spent that on stupid filters thinking theyd lower my ppm. Hell i wanna feed 400ppm thats what my water was I would check it.