buying RO water from store. I have questions

[krazekajin]

I just saw a place that sells RO water for $.39 a gallon. Is this a good price. I live in Toledo, OH. Also if I get those 5 gallon culligan water bottles and fill it up with this RO water, how long can RO water last being stored. I am not talking about mixed RO and salt water. I am just talking about plain ole RO water. I am thinking about buying 10 gallons at a time to use when I replace my evaporated water in my 10 and 29 gallon tanks.

 

[krazekajin]

bump

 

[ryanhayes9]

it would probably last.... i dont know how it could "un reverse osmosis itself.... as for the price, it is good. same as i have in florida. i have a 10 and 29 gallon too!

 

[irondog]

I'm in New Jersey one lfs wants .50 gallon another wants 1.00 another wants .85,I have a 46 gallon bow i buy 20 gallons at a time every 10 days a do a 10 gallon water change whatever water is lefted over i use to top off

 

[krazekajin]

awesome, then I am off to buy RO water.

 

[cdnreef]

I Bought My R/o Filter Off Of E-bay
Paid 50.00usd & It Dose Up To 100gpd
Deffently Worth Looking At

 

[sinner's girl]

I pay .33 at walmart, a stand down the service road has it for .30, but it takes cash, and well, I'm at walmart way, way too much anyway.
I've kept it for awhile without a problem, 10 at a time is fine. I buy 12-15 sometimes.

 

[maeistero]

walmart and some other companies are notoriously inaccurate in their quality. some places are awesome and i've never heard of fault with culligan, but just to say watch out. ro/di's are dirt cheap when you play it out over a year.

 

[sinner's girl]

it's culligan at walmart. I test the ro water, and check the date on the mechine at walmart. so far, knock on wood, I haven't had a problem. No room for ro unit...

 

[isistius]

i can get it for $.25 per gallon at my lfs. they also sell seawater for $.50 per gallon.

 

[dmjordan]

It's $.64 at my Walmart but my Safeway put in a Culligan refill thing and it's $.39 per gal.

 

[krazekajin]

I want an RO machine. but my tanks are at my office ( I am a youth pastor at the First Apostlic Church in Toledo, OH) I don't really have a place that I can hook up an RO device, but I can store water. So for right now I am going to buy it
Can I take fresh RO water and test it for nitrates and Phosphates using my standard saltwater test kits.

 

[maeistero]

your test kits will work. my warning about walmart water doesn't pertain to culligan if they have it. some do and some don't.
i was speaking of the cheap gallons of water every wallyworld sells in milk jugs. i believe it's separated out into "drinking" "distilled" and "purified". that stuff isn't stable enough for our purposes. the culligan usually has a separate area near the doors around here and is serviced by culligan themselves. i've never tested it personally, but i know they insist on complete control. i've talked with the home depot waterguy and he said they are government mandated as these jugs go into hospital water coolers. (probably a few senators coolers as well)

 

[mrchinky71]

here in southern california, RO water from a water vendor is about 20/gallon and it taste so good =) but my water lasted only about a year, i don't think it un-RO's itself, but things such as bacteria sets in from air or maybe dust as the jugs aren't really air tight.