DWC with Foam Rafts in 5 gallon buckets?

Michael Huntherz said:
I don’t have an easy way of disposing of anything, though if they were to the point of investigating my garbage I would probably be fucked anyway.

I understand being wasteful, and feeling it. We threw away large numbers of empty aquafina bottles for many years, gf wouldn’t drink anything else. The RO machine was one of the smartest things I ever bought. I don’t usually use it for the plants or fish tanks any more, but the drinking water is a boon.

I pulled the trigger on basic supplies for doing traditional DWC in these buckets for now, only thing left is to grab some media. If I decide to go with the raft method down the road, I can do that with some minor modifications.

I would love to find something to break down root material quickly. Muriatic acid would do it, but that shit is dangerous, hoping to avoid that, if possible.
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FWIW, the World Health Organization says dringing only RO water is not healthy. http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap12.pdf
 
1212ham said:
FWIW, the World Health Organization says dringing only RO water is not healthy. http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap12.pdf
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That’s an incredibly reductionist summary of that paper, thanks for your concern.

The American diet is so heavy in potassium, sodium and other salts the likelihood of drinking RO causing real problems in an over-salted American is vanishingly small, unless it was the only thing a person was drinking. If I were somewhere else I might worry. We also have fortified cereals, pasta, you name it, and we take mutlivitamins and all sorts of stuff. It seems pretty low on my list of risk factors.
 
Not to mention the blast of fluoride in toothpaste. Theres over 4 days recommended daily intake of fluoride in a single brushing with most toothpastes. :shock:
Approxamately 12x that of the average 8 oz. glass of tap water (fortified with fluoride).
 
HydroRed said:
Not to mention the blast of fluoride in toothpaste. Theres over 4 days recommended daily intake of fluoride in a single brushing with most toothpastes. :shock:
Approxamately 12x that of the average 8 oz. glass of tap water (fortified with fluoride).
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There’s no fluoride in many municipal water systems these days, check your local data. Everyone in my area believes there’s fluoride in the city water here and it literally never happened. There has never been fluoride in the city water here, yet I was told otherwise by everyone all my life. Then I looked for myself and learned otherwise. And the amount of chlorine is so low it was surprising, 1-3 ppm free chlorine, but we have really good aquifers here, so they chlorinate minimally. All I mean to say is everyone should look up their local water data, I learned a lot by doing so.
 
Michael Huntherz said:
There’s no fluoride in many municipal water systems these days, check your local data. Everyone in my area believes there’s fluoride in the city water here and it literally never happened. There has never been fluoride in the city water here, yet I was told otherwise by everyone all my life. Then I looked for myself and learned otherwise. And the amount of chlorine is so low it was surprising, 1-3 ppm free chlorine, but we have really good aquifers here, so they chlorinate minimally. All I mean to say is everyone should look up their local water data, I learned a lot by doing so.
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I just read that by 2006 almost 70% of the US' municipal water supply was still fortified with Fluoride and still at over 67% by 2012. Bottled water Co. dont have to disclose that info like municipalities do.
 
HydroRed said:
I just read that by 2006 almost 70% of the US' municipal water supply was still fortified with Fluoride. Bottled water Co. dont have to disclose that info like municipalities do.
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Yeah, I test my own bottled water, if you like mineral water I recommend Dasani and if you like RO Aquafina, every other one of them is iffy. My cousin is a doctor of chemistry and has a mass spectrometer, so I can find out from her what’s in ...uhhh, stuff, like pretty much anything.

Bottled water is sketchy AF overall, you are absolutely right. I tell people their tap is probably safer, but I wasn’t aware of that 70% figure, will look into it. I still think fluoride is safer than say listeria, or giardia, which are sometimes present amd undetected in bottled water. We make our own RO for drinking and breeding soft water cichlids, and I love it immensely.
 
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