Mixing this H2O

This is the water that I'll mixing with IO salt and puting into the new 10 gal tank.

I will do 1 gal water changes each week with this bottled water. And use it for top off also.

RO water?

haha, you will soon find out that a 10 gallon does not, in fact, hold 10 gallons of water.

I don't know for sure if it is straight RO water Bluesky. I think it might be a mix of RO & DI along with some other trace minerals. All that it say's on the label is drinking water. Some people say it work's and other's say it doesn't but nobody has a tank running on just one type of bottled water.

So I decided to set up this 10 gal tank and test it out.

Looks Like Walmart Drinking water. Most people say to use the Distilled water because all minerals have been removed then you just add back what you need with the salt you add. I look at quite a bit of articles and thats what I have found to be most popular. I would say that would work for now but maybe next time read up on the distilled water before you rebuy.

Ya - I use all distilled water, not RO, but just distilled from the grocery....I need to get an RO/DI unit, but I go through about 20G of it a week, but I keep puttin git off....

Menards

ticklem 2004 It is the green caped bottled drinking water from Wal-Mart and I mixed it with IO to a SG of 1.025 Now all my friends want to see something from there part of the world in the tank. I didn't know what to do with the bigger shells that I got from Savannah Georgia. So I just turned one of them into a planter. I might try drilling a shell latter with a small bit and my dremel. Then run some 4lb test line thru the shell to hold and grow chateo. I guess my idea for using shells as planter boxes didn't go over very well though. With a picture rating of 1.0 I can only imagine what that person would say if he/she saw the tank today.

zhubbell I have plans for making a distiller and I will be working on that next year.

Stevie T I shop at Menards a lot because it's less than 2 blocks away. And they still sell the 20 piece Tool Shop brand diamond coated drill bit's for 8 dollars. They use to be 5 dollar's a set but 8 dollar's a set is still very cheap. They work great in my dremel for drilling glass.

Well you can save the containers and get RO water from the RO unit at wallmart.

pakirri that would be nice but the Wal-Mart that I shop at dosen't have a RO unit. And I kind of had my heart set on testing this bottled drinking water. The tank has been running on it for about a week now.

I use the green cap water and nothing else in all my tanks started them with it and use nothing else just finding the water is a problem the walmarts here are always out of it

It appears to be a just regular selling product at the Wal-Mart here wimby. The store alway's seem's to have shelf's of it in stock. I've also noticed the brown algae that jamesnmandy was refering to. The brown algae is forming on top of the sand bed on the right end of my tank. At this point it can be vacumed up in a breeze during a water change. I belive the brown algae started growing simply because of a lack of water flow on that end of the tank. The rest of the tank still look's very nice and the coral's are growing just fine.