Hello all,
I am in the process of building my very first aquarium room (!), and am considering the myriad options for equipment out there. The species I will keep will be varied and will require different water chemistries, with some doing splendidly on my local central New York tap water, and others requiring softer water. I have decided to install a multiple stage whole house water filter (in 2"x10" or 2"x20" cartridges) that will filter the water down to 5 microns and remove chlorine, chloramines, lead, cysts, and who knows what else is in my tap water. This will provide the water for most of my tanks and save me from having to manually dechlorinate water at every water change. Later on I will also add an RO system to provide water for those species that require softer water.
In researching this equipment, I have noticed that RO systems typically come with multiple prefilters that do basically the same thing that a whole house water filter does, e.g., filter down to a specified level with a sediment filter (5 micron, 1 micron, etc.), then filter through a carbon block to remove chlorine and other chemicals, before passing through the RO membrane. My question is, does anybody know how to add a stand-alone RO membrane to a pre-existing whole house water filter so that the user can utilize both filtered tap water and RO water, without having to spend money on all the expensive RO prefilters and housings? I can't imagine it's a very difficult thing to do, but extensive searches in google have not yielded any results.
Thanks in advance for your help!
-Eric
I am in the process of building my very first aquarium room (!), and am considering the myriad options for equipment out there. The species I will keep will be varied and will require different water chemistries, with some doing splendidly on my local central New York tap water, and others requiring softer water. I have decided to install a multiple stage whole house water filter (in 2"x10" or 2"x20" cartridges) that will filter the water down to 5 microns and remove chlorine, chloramines, lead, cysts, and who knows what else is in my tap water. This will provide the water for most of my tanks and save me from having to manually dechlorinate water at every water change. Later on I will also add an RO system to provide water for those species that require softer water.
In researching this equipment, I have noticed that RO systems typically come with multiple prefilters that do basically the same thing that a whole house water filter does, e.g., filter down to a specified level with a sediment filter (5 micron, 1 micron, etc.), then filter through a carbon block to remove chlorine and other chemicals, before passing through the RO membrane. My question is, does anybody know how to add a stand-alone RO membrane to a pre-existing whole house water filter so that the user can utilize both filtered tap water and RO water, without having to spend money on all the expensive RO prefilters and housings? I can't imagine it's a very difficult thing to do, but extensive searches in google have not yielded any results.
Thanks in advance for your help!
-Eric
