Distilled water same as RO water?

[fab79]

Hi guys and gals,

I have a distiller at home. Is actually used to make distilled water at home for drinking. Would like to find out if it is the same as reverse osmosis water? Does distilled water still contain phosphates, silicates.. etc?

[ryz]

distilled water = better than RO water.

[Michael Young]

Reverse Osmosis units will produce water that is between 92% to 98% pure. Distilled water is pure water.

[bwilly]

battery water like dat also can..??

[Michael Young]

battery water like dat also can..??

Battery water is distilled water but how many bottles would you need to fill up a tank...? Invest in a DI unit. Is cheaper in the long run.

[ryz]

Distillation Unit is widely available too.

[fab79]

thanks for the great info!

wow can save money liao...

but one pail of water takes hours to make!!!

and the electricity costs too!

that distiller is a sucker for elect...

[ryz]

calculate the power consumption... one pail works out to be quite cheap only.. say it take 5 hours to make a pail?(which i'm sure it takes much less time) it probably only costs u less than a dollar. much cheaper than buying Distilled water in bottles.

[Michael Young]

thanks for the great info!

wow can save money liao...

but one pail of water takes hours to make!!!

and the electricity costs too!

that distiller is a sucker for elect...

I believe what you call a 'distiller' is built for purifying drinking water and will not handle the large volume of water needed for an aquarium well. You should check out Sea Life in Balestier of Marine Life in Hong Leong Garden for their DI units.

Those at SL are diy units made from PVC pipes. All they do is fill it up with the necessary DI resins. Those at ML used real commercial filter canisters instead.

Alternatively, you could check the Yellow Pages for 'water filtration' specialty shops for other DI units. A typical DI unit should last you at least a few months (depending on amount of water changed and topped up) before you need to recharge the resins.

[Ian]

So happen i have a distiller too. I do not use it for new set up or large water change. Water volume too large for my distiller to handel in a short period of time.

I use it for top up only. So I use only 1 bucket a week to fill my top up container.

[ryz]

yea mainly use for top up..

[fab79]

yea mainly use it for topup...

good enuf for me...

might as well put it to good use