Many years ago at a sales conference, an instructor told everyone that the best sales person could sell water to someone right in front of their sink. This was way before there was bottled water, (well besides Perrier) and people just drank tap water. Flash forward many years and now companies are making billions on selling us, "Clean" water and a large majority of us fork over $$$ for this water and don't ever use the water that is readily available to us in every tap in our house.
People have been keeping reefs for a lot longer than bottled water and RODI units have been around and while I know that there are some harmful things in tap water, there are also useful things as well and people just used water conditioners to make it safe with no issue. The same goes for freshwater tanks that I have kept my whole life and always used tap water and within the last few years the LFS's and forums have been pushing people to start using RO water for freshwater tanks as well. I call BS and continue to use tap water for my freshwater tanks and have had absolutely no problems, but when it came to saltwater I followed the masses and broke down and spent over $300 on an RODI System.
After thinking about it, it seems pretty convenient for the companies selling RODI Systems that everyone is being told that we need RODI water in order to be successful in reefing. Targeting the reefing community is a genius idea because a lot of us are willing to spend a lot of money on anything giving us a better chance of success, but have we all been brainwashed here??? Do we really need RODI???
People have been keeping reefs for a lot longer than bottled water and RODI units have been around and while I know that there are some harmful things in tap water, there are also useful things as well and people just used water conditioners to make it safe with no issue. The same goes for freshwater tanks that I have kept my whole life and always used tap water and within the last few years the LFS's and forums have been pushing people to start using RO water for freshwater tanks as well. I call BS and continue to use tap water for my freshwater tanks and have had absolutely no problems, but when it came to saltwater I followed the masses and broke down and spent over $300 on an RODI System.
After thinking about it, it seems pretty convenient for the companies selling RODI Systems that everyone is being told that we need RODI water in order to be successful in reefing. Targeting the reefing community is a genius idea because a lot of us are willing to spend a lot of money on anything giving us a better chance of success, but have we all been brainwashed here??? Do we really need RODI???