distilled or r/o water?

[the image reaper]

double-post, sorry

the image reaper Reviewed by the image reaper on 12-24-2007. distilled or r/o water? would anybody recommend one over the other? i use distilled, just wondering if r/o would be better to use Rating: 5

[scagster]

Someone's probably gonna bash me for this, but I don't use any cal-mag, I buffer my res by using about 80% RO/DI, and 20% tap water. Works for me, just needs a little fine-tuning for the pH.

[the image reaper]

no reason to be bashed ... every water system varies ... you possibly have a high level of minerals in your water, enough to get by on ... I would suspect AZ would be a high-alkaline source, but who knows ?, you may be highly acidic only a mile away ... that's why we all need to test :smokin:

[iniganja]

Top-off ( not to change the subject) is when you add water without nutes to adjust ppm? Am I way off?

[Illusion]

top off is when you add water back into the reservoir to bring the level back where it should be

it can be with nutrients or without

or if you add no nutes it'll bring it the ppm down

if you add the same ppm back, it'll be the same, etc...