If I use well water, does it need to be sent through a ro/di?

[stlouisguy]

also I was thinking as I have been looking at houses, if homes have copper pipes, and copper is bad for tank, wouldnt the copper leach out of the pipes even a small bit and start to build up in the tanks?

[capncapo]

Well water should definitely go through a RO/DI.

Your RO/DI will remove the copper that may come from your pipes.

[stlouisguy]

huh, had no idea it would remove copper also

Thanks! I thought it still should but wasnt sure

[zt444a]

I have lived in areas where the houses all had well water as a water source. Without a filter, almost all of them had very high levels of iron in the water as well, in fact most of the toilet bowls would be rust red inside after awhile.

I'd bet that high a level would not be too good for fish. Well water also absorbs alot of whatever is contained in runoff. Fertilizers, insecticides, etc.

Without a doubt you'd still need filtration, maybe even moreso with well water.

[Letmegrow]

Originally posted by zt444a
Well water also absorbs alot of whatever is contained in runoff. Fertilizers, insecticides, etc.

That depends on how deep you well is.
Most of the water that comes from the wells has not seen day light in 100's of years.

Also if that were true, our water tables would be permanantly poisoned as there is no way to clean what's under the bed rock 70' - 500' under ground and we would not be able to use wells.

I used well water for years, had under 20 TDS and 0 phosphates with out a RO unit. I do not test for anything else.

I understand the iron thing, but your micro and macro Algae should love the Iron.

[spongebobby]

I'm on well water...my well is 780 feet deep. My TDS is about 100-125 all year long. Only thing I notice is that the water is very hard due to the large amont of calcium in the water but other than that I have no problems using it. I do filter through a RO/DI before the water goes into a water softner. I wouldn't worry about it to much as long as the well is fairly deep and the well isn't in the middle of a crop farm.

[TWINPEAKS]

I'm on a well and used it for fresh water for years it wasn't until I got into saltwater that I started filtering it.I know it contains alot of calcium but very little iron and its only 37 feet deep.

[zt444a]

Guess it depends on the area as far as the iron and run off goes. If you lived in a place where the amount of iron turns the toilet bowl rust red, I'd suspect that much iron might not be too good for the tank.

It was an agricultural area as well with more than the usual share of farms going on, and certainly less rocky soil than around here. That all helps with filtering too, i mean the rocky soil and not being near any places where runoff from farms or factories might be a problem.

Howard

[Poof]

I have used well water in my 7gal nano for a year without any problems. However, I did a gal. water change a week and did not see any problems with the use of that water.