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View Poll Results: What do you use?
RO/DI for water changes and top off 100 62.89%
RO for water changes and top off 30 18.87%
Distilled for water changes and top off 8 5.03%
Treated tap for water chanes and top off 18 11.32%
Whatever the LFS uses. That's where I get my water from 4 2.52%
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Old 04-20-2005, 01:31 PM   #1 (permalink)
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RO/DI poll

Who uses RO/DI? Or do you use Just RO water? Tap water? I just bought a system and was wondering.
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Old 04-20-2005, 01:42 PM   #2 (permalink)
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ro/di all the way
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Old 04-20-2005, 01:44 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I use 100% ro/di 100% of the time.
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Old 04-20-2005, 03:39 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I use 100% ro/di 100% of the time.
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Old 04-20-2005, 04:34 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Old 04-20-2005, 10:37 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Never used RO water Tap all the way
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Old 04-20-2005, 11:30 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I use 100% ro/di 100% of the time.
Same here.....
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Old 04-21-2005, 05:09 AM   #8 (permalink)
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mostly drainage run off...
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Old 04-21-2005, 06:42 AM   #9 (permalink)
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RO/DI for all water changes and top off!
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Old 04-21-2005, 03:59 PM   #10 (permalink)
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LOL Sharkbait!!!
RO/DI ~ like Gina
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Old 04-21-2005, 04:04 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Old 04-21-2005, 09:30 PM   #12 (permalink)
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100% R.O. all the time, everytime
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Old 04-21-2005, 10:13 PM   #13 (permalink)
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plain old tap water for me. But, wow, I had no idea that RO/DI would take the lead by so much.
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Old 04-22-2005, 08:56 AM   #14 (permalink)
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I voted ro/di....but I'm starting to use tap again for water changes and ro/di for evaporation. I may be switching to all tap soon...dunno....
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Old 04-22-2005, 09:03 AM   #15 (permalink)
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RO/DI for everything now, was useing store bought water
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