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To say that DI and Distilled water are the same is not exactly the truth. http://www.distilleddeionizedwater.com/deionized-water-vs-distilled-water/ I too have a reef tank at home (135 and 29 biocube). I have considered using my DI water to brew with adding the proper elements back in to...

so after making the Son of a Fermentation Chiller I wanted something a bit more efficient. I wanted to find an inexpensive water chiller like I use on my reef aquarium, but could not find one at a price that I was willing to by one for. I wanted to run a pump from a bucket or trash can that...

As this is the water I use for my reef aquarium I have a 55 gallon drum I keep full. The resins are far from my concern, but thanks for the thought. Thanks for the second bit of info, I'm not sure what the resolution is on the test kit I use. I live in central Texas north of Austin. The...

The water first goes through a softener. It comes out at around 350ppm from there. The RO unit is separate frome the DI. RO gets the water to about 4-6 ppm, then it is pushed through DI which brings it to 0 ppm. The RO/DI alkalinity (kh) is 0. Thanks for the info.. Ill have to take a look at...

Thanks for the reply. That was an interesting read. The water chem thing isn't too complicated for me since I run a reef aquarium and deal with water chemistry on a daily/weekly basis and have test kits for a bunch of different parameters. I have found a couple of excel charts, but they seem to...

I'm new to the Water Chemistry side of brewing, but not new to brewing. I wanted to take a new step in brewing. I have done some searching and have found things on distilled water and bottled water, but nothing on using RO/DI water. I use a RO/DI system for my reef aquarium as starting water...