Water hose filters?

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Anybody have any experience using a water hose filter? Instead of sitting water out for 24hrs. Thought it might save me some time work by being able to fill my watering jugs directly from my outdoor hose close to my garden. I've been filling from indoor sink, where the water is filtered then letting them sit overnight, outdoor bibs are not filtered. I've looked at a few different ones, they mostly say the same things but prices vary widely. Anybody use these things?
 
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Ive used these for a lot of years. Indoor, Outdoor. Not sure why a lot more don't use these. You can look up what they take out. Pretty awesome actually. 30-40 bucks, somewhere in there.
 

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a mongo frog said:
Ive used these for a lot of years. Indoor, Outdoor. Not sure why a lot more don't use these. You can look up what they take out. Pretty awesome actually. 30-40 bucks, somewhere in there.
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I looked into those and I don't believe they remove any chloramine
 
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That's what I'm trying to do is remove chloramine thought about diy filter but haven't got around to it.
And yea chloramine is used to control micro orgs population good and the bad.
 
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Chloramines should be removed from water for dialysis, aquariums, hydroponic applications, and homebrewing beer. Chloramines can interfere with dialysis, can hurt aquatic animals, and can give homebrewed beer a medicinal taste by forming chlorophenols. In hydroponic applications, it will stunt the growth and fruit production of plants
 
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240sxing said:
Chloramines should be removed from water for dialysis, aquariums, hydroponic applications, and homebrewing beer. Chloramines can interfere with dialysis, can hurt aquatic animals, and can give homebrewed beer a medicinal taste by forming chlorophenols. In hydroponic applications, it will stunt the growth and fruit production of plants
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Im not so sure this is true. Can you show us some of your plant pics to show what chloramine has done to your plants. Also dead fish in your aquarium? My, well daughters fish are doing lovely. My plants also.
 
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Im not so sure this is true. Can you show us some of your plant pics to show what chloramine has done to your plants. Also dead fish in your aquarium? My, well daughters fish are doing lovely. My plants also.
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Just search your local monthly water report and it states , how much and why the use chloramines and you will read , its the same as chlorine which we all no to be bad for plants , as they do the same thing control the population of micro organisms but unlike chlorine which evaps very quickly chloramine attaches itself to ammonia allowing it to maintain itself longer in its habbitat.

Not that one could shows true signs of damage in a plant as it states Stunted Growth. But with a side by side , all equal , one de-chloraminated water and the other obviously still containing the chloramines and I bet there would be a noticeable growth difference.

But yeah I have no true evidence that I can show. And you stick straight tap water in your aquarium/s? What kind of fish?
 
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240sxing said:
Just search your local monthly water report and it states , how much and why the use chloramines and you will read , its the same as chlorine which we all no to be bad for plants , as they do the same thing control the population of micro organisms but unlike chlorine which evaps very quickly chloramine attaches itself to ammonia allowing it to maintain itself longer in its habbitat.

Not that one could shows true signs of damage in a plant as it states Stunted Growth. But with a side by side , all equal , one de-chloraminated water and the other obviously still containing the chloramines and I bet there would be a noticeable growth difference.

But yeah I have no true evidence that I can show. And you stick straight tap water in your aquarium/s? What kind of fish?
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Tap water with the hose filter in post #5. i don't know what type of fish I'm not good with all that. Ill show you then you probably will know. Just regular fish i guess.
 
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240sxing said:
Just search your local monthly water report and it states , how much and why the use chloramines and you will read , its the same as chlorine which we all no to be bad for plants , as they do the same thing control the population of micro organisms but unlike chlorine which evaps very quickly chloramine attaches itself to ammonia allowing it to maintain itself longer in its habbitat.

Not that one could shows true signs of damage in a plant as it states Stunted Growth. But with a side by side , all equal , one de-chloraminated water and the other obviously still containing the chloramines and I bet there would be a noticeable growth difference.

But yeah I have no true evidence that I can show. And you stick straight tap water in your aquarium/s? What kind of fish?
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Just these type of shitter fish. Even having happy babies. There is one big big one hiding in the log. I can try to show you if you must see.
 

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Heard anything about these? My Grow Store carries them.
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About $50.
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I used to use one of these from wallmart. 20.00 . I have found that regular hose water is fine for outdoor and indoor. There is a good article and thread on how chlorine and Chlorimine are buffered in the first few inches of top soil. I run two 50 gallon rezs straight from the hose and are having better grows and less PH fluctuations then when I used RO. Tap water has useful minerals in it as well and if you remove you pay to put them back.Of course when brewing Teas and microbes I would use good water.
 
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I all so read peat moss is a better filter along with carbon. fill a tube full of one or the other or both and put a hose fitting on it and run thru that.
 
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I used to use one of these from wallmart. 20.00 . I have found that regular hose water is fine for outdoor and indoor. There is a good article and thread on how chlorine and Chlorimine are buffered in the first few inches of top soil. I run two 50 gallon rezs straight from the hose and are having better grows and less PH fluctuations then when I used RO. Tap water has useful minerals in it as well and if you remove you pay to put them back.Of course when brewing Teas and microbes I would use good water.
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Some of my friends have told me the same thing, about using water directly from hose. So you use water directly from the hose without letting it sit or adding anything to it at all? That's pretty much what I've been doing, I'll let it sit sometimes- usually not more than 12-24hrs, but I was just wondering if these filters would actually improve my plants health. Thanks for the info.
 
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