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InvaderJim
12/08/2006, 10:21 AM
It's come time for me to mix up some saltwater for my 10g and I was wondering what water people use from Publix? The jug that says Purified or just Distilled water? When I went they only had 1g jugs...I think I would look pretty odd pushing around a shopping cart with like 11 one gallon jugs of water. haha

Joshjohnson
12/08/2006, 11:20 AM
Just so you know, i used to use distilled water from jugs and had a bad red slime problem turns out the distilled water has quiet bit of phosphates in it.

InvaderJim
12/08/2006, 11:28 AM
hmmm I guess I will pass on the distilled then. haha

The purified jugs at publix say di-ionized along with something else but I forgot what it said...it makes me wonder if the water is RO/DI.

cristhiam
12/08/2006, 01:22 PM
I used the water from their machine, worked out good.

InvaderJim
12/08/2006, 02:16 PM
haha I bought 11, one gallon jugs of water. The lady at the checkout line was looking at me funny.

cristhiam
12/08/2006, 02:49 PM
You should of see the looks when I bought the water to fill up a 125G :) the machine displayed SOLD OUT!! took for ever too

dippin61
12/08/2006, 02:54 PM
yeh.. i regulary wipe our winco out of ro/di water.

never had a look or a question buying 15-20 at a time at .89/g

and no problems from the water as far as i can tell.

chrisstie
12/08/2006, 02:55 PM
I have an RO\DI system but grabbed a few easy jugs from publix while i was there to help with setting up my tank and went with the purified one .. yous hould be fine with it

Blue Deuce
12/08/2006, 03:38 PM
My wife buys me the deionized gallon jugs to drink when I go out in the woods. I tested them with a TDS meter and got a reading of 146.

cristhiam
12/08/2006, 03:48 PM
TDS on the publix I got was 3 same thing from walmart and windixie, mmm maybe they are run by the same company. Never had any problem with their water. The weird thing is that I get 3 out of my RO/DI too.

cristhiam
12/08/2006, 03:49 PM
My tap water is 148 :)

InvaderJim
12/08/2006, 03:56 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8708817#post8708817 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cristhiam
You should of see the looks when I bought the water to fill up a 125G :) the machine displayed SOLD OUT!! took for ever too

hahaha thats funny.

haha...I got the jugs that said 'Purified'. Ozonated / De-Ionized at .77/gl. :D Saltwater has been mixing for nearly 2 hours.