Billions of bacteria colonizing your reservoir anywhere they can find food and air supply eating, fucking, and shitting on each other...
water straight out of the tap has a lot of co2 in it, which dissipates over time, raising the PH of the water.
Hey bud. Chloramine will not evaporate if left out. Chlorine does, that's why many places switched to Chloramine because it is more stable. That said I run city tap water with Chloramine with no ill effects. I am in Coco so it is considered hydro but not DWC.
so I ended up using tap for about a week. Worked totally fine lol. Sucks that I spent 300$ on an RO system when I didn’t need it. I guess I’ll use it anyways and use tap for emergencies or when I’m lazy lol. Honestly tho idk why but the tap water was much more stable in terms of PH. Like so stable I thought my pen was broken lol. I think I may have adjusted my ph 3 times in 8 days.
Nice, I am super lucky. With my feed and tap water I come out to a perfect 6 every time. I have not had to adjust PH since I more than doubled their feed. I still check it every time but have not had to adjust. It's been great losing that step. RO also needs Calmag but with my tap water I have Calcium and just add Epsom Salts.
Hi there, I'm using a coco setup with dry amendments and I chloramine in my tap with ppm around 195. Ive read both schools of thought on chloramine affect, but I like your point on consistency of ph. does this mean an RO system will alter the PH of my tap, which is around 9.2? Happy Friday
RO water will generally give you a neutral ph of 7.0.
Coco and dry amendments. Sounds like a winning setup. Pictures?
Sounds like you'll never have issues with that setup.