Quote Originally Posted by GetThisOrDie
Damn, it must take forever for all the water to flow through the brita... I have a brita jug for drinking water and it takes forever to fill up lol.


Now does the brita take out the trace elements? If so then you are probably adding cal/mag or mollassas to make up for it?

I read once somewhere that the type of chlorine they use now in the tap water doesnt harm the plants and doesnt need you to take those type of measure to remove it anymore... filters and leaving the water sit over night...

What are your takes on that?
Actually the Brita uses a magnesium ion particulate as part of the filter so it takes some out but keeps a little bit in. This keeps me from having to buy the hardwater FloraMicro. As for flow, I rigged four of the filter cartridges into the bottom of a cat littler bucket. A full one is done in about 4 minutes.

The new chlorine (chloramine) doesn't evaporate at all. And it's not really new, it will change into a different chlorine form if you change the temperature, at least if it doesn't have a stabilizing agent as part of its molecular structure.