[jimbanks]

I went down to the local spring water place where they bottle and distribute 'Monadnock Spring Water'. It's 35 cents per gallon and according to their tests available online there are no phosphates or silicates in the water. The funny thing is that right on the front of the machine where it shows the water facts you can see that one thing was crossed out with black marker. If you looked closely enough you could see that it used to say "prepared by reverse osmosis" argh!!! I decided to try some of it anyway before buying the RO machine so I'll be sure to let you guys know the progress.
On a side note, I read about a couple products for phosphate reduction. Phosban and Seagel. Prow, I saw your name on a couple of the Phosban threads and was curious what your experience was. I see it available pretty cheap and based on some of that thread I could pop it right in the Fluval canister. Is this worth it or should I stop cheaping out and just go RO/DI?

Thanks again everyone!