Wal-Mart DI water

[eaglesrx]

Any of you guys test Wal-Mart DI water for phosphate.

Has anyone tested it for silicates or anything else that would cause an algae bloom?

I use it as my top-off and use it for water changes on my nano. I can't figure out why I still have some algae. I've got phosphate coming from somewhere.

thanks!

[StevieTdrill]

Each store is going to have different water as they contract it out to the local water companies. I used to use it before having my RO delivered to my office, I didn't see any issues with it.

The best way is to test it out yourself and make sure the maintenance schedule on the machine is filled out.

[crsswift70]

If you're talking about the water station in the front, I used it 4 times when i was TOTALLY out of water and the LFS was closed. The 4th time crashed my tank.. killed half my corals and caused a massive algae bloom. If you're talking about the bottled stuff.... nope :)

[Mark426]

I use Walmart Distilled water thats in the jug, NEVER from those machines. In the 2.5 years I have had my nano...no problems...no algae.

Mark

p.s. DISTILLED not DI

[rustrocker]

machines=tap+carbon

[cullens089]

ive used distilled water from walmart and meijers lol just make sure you get the stuff in the jug and not from the machine