{"id":17711,"date":"2025-02-24T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T19:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=17711"},"modified":"2026-06-27T01:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:18:01","slug":"aquarium-update-rodi-from-brs-installed-with-aquatec-booster-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=17711","title":{"rendered":"Aquarium Update - 4 Stage Value RO\/DI (Plus=including pressure meter) from BRS Installed with Aquatec Booster Pump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2:15PM water started with booster pressure at 65psi from driveway water source to Costco 27Gal storage tote. So far so good, TDS from source reads from<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RODI system IN<\/strong> red line (after two canisters: 5 Micron Purtrex Sediment Filter &amp; BRS 5 Micron VOC Carbon Block, and membrane, respectively)  is <strong>11-12ppm<\/strong><br><strong>OUT <\/strong>is <strong>0ppm<\/strong> (after 3rd canister = Color Changing DI Resin).<br>Water <strong>waste <\/strong>is at <strong>440ppm<\/strong> (<strong>black line<\/strong>).<br><strong>Garden hose<\/strong> water is at <strong>320ppm<\/strong>, while <br><strong>kitchen faucet<\/strong> cold water is at <strong>340ppm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">at 5:39PM about half tank filled. So it's about 13.5Gal\/3:24hr, thus, about <strong>4 Gal\/hr<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update 6\/27\/2026:<\/strong> Still much for me to learn as I think I haven't truly passed beginner's stage: Not much success in coral growing. So I should refer to some Youtuber successes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE BEGINNER FRIENDLY REEF TANK 1 YEAR LATER!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZalybDRcPm0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2:15PM water started with booster pressure at 65psi from driveway water source to Costco 27Gal storage tote. So far so good, TDS from source reads from RODI system IN red line (after two canisters: 5 Micron Purtrex Sediment Filter &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=17711\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21173,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17711\/revisions\/21173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}