Quote Originally Posted by MikeM670 View Post
I would add RO-rite if the water I used was the RO/DI for bowls ect. I just use the RO water for things like that. Distilled water is the best for misting as it contains zero minerals. RO/DI is the closest you can come to this.

I'm pretty sure there is a nice article on water right here on Frog Forum you might be interested in. You will just have to hunt it down.
Yes i'm aware that RO/DI is as close to distilled water as you can get, what i'm saying though is that the reason you get spots on your glass in tanks is from particles in the water. Now good RO/DI water is going to be 0 TDS along with distilled, but just RO will get you usually in the range of 40 on the high end down to low 20's i've seen and into the teens as well. What i'm hoping someone can attest to is that a TDS reading of somewhere in the 20-40 range rids the water of enough of particles that would cause your glass to spot. I mean we are talking particles that would be in the 2-3 micron range here which i'm willing to bet won't cause spots on the glass for the human eye to be able to see. Maybe after a long long time of never wiping the glass you may eventually see something and i'm wondering what kind of effect particles in the 2-3 micron range would have on the misting head clogging.

If i had the space i'd go for something like this


and for that setup i would have to have kind of holding tank for the DI water to go into which is the problem as i have mentioned i don't really have space for one. I may be able to fit a 5 gallon bucket into my cabinet that is right next to the sink and just drill a hole through the side of the cabinet to run the line over to the bucket. And if i did that i would need a float valve like this inside the bucket right in order to stop the bucket from filling up too much?


If i go the RO/DI route this is the system i'm looking at
http://www.buckeyefieldsupply.com/sh...ry=171&Sub=166 which is probably just like yours right? minus the storage tank and faucet hookup for the RO water.

Basically its about 100 more bucks to add the DI stage into the system is what it comes down to. This would really be awesome if i had several vivs that were getting misted, it's just going to be that i'm going to have this bucket of RO/DI water sitting and sitting and sitting full alot of the time because for now i only have 1 viv running one nozzle for about 30 seconds total time over a 24 hour period so really thats probably not even close to a gallon of RO/DI water being used per day. In this case it would probably make more sense to just buy distilled for a buck a gallon at the grocery, but the reason i'm researching this all is because I mainly want an RO system for my drinking water at home as i like to drink alot of water so i figured if i'm going to get a system i might as well make it so i can use the system to produce water for my Viv as well then eliminating trips to the grocery for distilled water