water filter for garden hose for hydro???

gorillagrower0840

gorillagrower0840

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I was wondering if there is a good way to filter water coming out of the garden hose. Currently my tap water is about 315 ppm. is there a multiple filter setup that can be attatched to the hose? can a hose filter bring the ppm to below 200 ppm? what is the best way to filter water coming out of garden hose? I need large quantities of water for a hydroponics setup. I am going to have twelve 5 gallon buckets plus a reservoir to fill every two weeks. I know about reverse osmosis but right now it is not an option. thanks for any help.
 
Filtered water that is truly filtered needs to pass through a filter. This takes time. I can suggest getting a tall boy or a reverse osmosis filter and a 55 gallon drum and a basement water pump. Its gonna cost around $300. You can hook the pump to a garden hose and plug it in to push filtered water at a high volume in acquitted amounts for your plants. I do it this way. I also add a float valve and a shut off valve for the incoming filtered water so I don't have to babysit it while it refills.
 
Pacific sands makes the Eco one hose filter. It's what I use. It's the best. I'll get a pic right away let me go take it
 
a mongo frog said:
Pacific sands makes the Eco one hose filter. It's what I use. It's the best. I'll get a pic right away let me go take it
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How much does it lower your tap water's ppm by? If my water is at 315 ppm, what do you think the Eco one hose filter would lower it to? And also have you heard about the "clean water fun" hose filter and the "boogie blue" hose filter? I was thinking of putting the boogie blue filter (kdf) and clean water fun fiter (catylytic carbon) both on my garden hose- would that even be possible?

This video shows both filters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa9_DPGQ98g
 
I know about the boogie hose filter. There all over here in California. To me the boogie is smaller in diameter. Don't even know if that matters. The Eco one is like 35-40 bucks I think. I'm not sure the ppm with or with out I can check if u like.
 
a mongo frog said:
I know about the boogie hose filter. There all over here in California. To me the boogie is smaller in diameter. Don't even know if that matters. The Eco one is like 35-40 bucks I think. I'm not sure the ppm with or with out I can check if u like.
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ya that'd be great. I know reverse osmosis can get to 0 ppm or very close to it, but was wondering how these hose filters will do.
 
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Not sure if this helps, but both with and without filter read 0.2 ec or 100 ppm. My meter doesn't go lower. Sorry. Good luck.
 
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