Publix purified water

[stickx911]

FYI So the gallon jugs they sell for 65c are also 0ppm.

I was happy to find a cheaper alternative to $1+/g I was paying.

For my 18g of total system value, that's cheaper than RO filetering and buying from the lfs. So I figured for those other nano keepers out there, they'd be happy to know.

 

[eagle9252]

<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">How can it be cheaper? You say 65¢ a gallon for ro water not rodi. Is cheaper? </span></span>
<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Other than it not being as pure as rodi water you still have to add the salt or buy it premixed from the LFS. I know the LFS does not want you to know that you can mix it up yourself. The charge around 1.00 to 1.50 per gal of sw mix and it’s probably IO. </span></span>

<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">I will use salinity in this example below. My cost of water at home is a ½¢ per gallon and I will use a large amount of water to off set the cost of the rodi unit and ball-parked it at 200.00 to which you can get a cheaper unit. Several have been sold on the board for 40.00 to 60.00</span></span>

<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Bottom line is if you purchased the salt of a 225g Salinity buckett for 70.00 and the rodi unit for 200.00 and your house water at ½¢ per gallon (or 1.13 for 225g) together it would be 271.13 before tax and divide that by 225 it comes to 1.21 per gal for the first 225g of mixed salt. </span></span>

<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">The next batch and there after is even lower at 32¢ per gallon. This does not even include the gas and the wear and tear on the vehicle. But if you are like me someone is at Publix a min of 3x a week but you are taking a chance not getting pure clean water. </span></span>

<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Then you have an upkeep of the rodi unit. Of about 30.00+/- per year. </span></span>

 

[kirkplunkett]

I buy my water too... I plan on changing that once I get settled in a permanent residence. But in the meantime, I'll do it a little more expensive.

I buy my RO/DI water (fresh, not mixed) from Optimum Aquarium in Kennesaw. They sell it for $0.50. After the ARC discount, it's $0.45.

I've also been told that Publix sells it from $0.35 if you bring a container to put it in, but I've never checked.

 

[stickx911]

eagle9252;816116 wrote:
<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">Bottom line is if you purchased the salt of a 225g Salinity buckett for 70.00 and the rodi unit for 200.00 and your house water at ½¢ per gallon (or 1.13 for 225g) together it would be 271.13 before tax and divide that by 225 it comes to 1.21 per gal for the first 225g of mixed salt. </span></span>

I use three gallons a week. It'll take me a year and a half just to break even at that rate. Plus upkeep, and problems. My last rodi had filter seal problems so that kind of makes me weary, and waste water and filter maintenance...or just buy 0ppm water and let someone else worry about those issues.

 

[dr_ fish]

stickx911;816139 wrote: I use three gallons a week. It'll take me a year and a half just to break even at that rate. Plus upkeep, and problems. My last rodi had filter seal problems so that kind of makes me weary, and waste water and filter maintenance...or just buy 0ppm water and let someone else worry about those issues.

True, although when I had a nano a few years back I was doing the same thing, buying water by the jug in the store. I never got a jug with 0ppm, they always had between 1-3.

 

[stickx911]

^ I was very surprised the cheaper water came out at 0ppm. I was just buying distilled, so I assume their purified water is rodi (the label says serves distilled water uses). My lfs sells water at 69c and since I already go to publix, it saves on making that extra stop too.

but honestly, 1-3ppm wouldn't be all that bad if that was what I was looking at.

 

[eagle9252]

stickx911;816157 wrote: ^ I was very surprised the cheaper water came out at 0ppm. I was just buying distilled, so I assume their purified water is rodi (the label says serves distilled water uses). My lfs sells water at 69c and since I already go to publix, it saves on making that extra stop too.

but honestly, 1-3ppm wouldn't be all that bad if that was what I was looking at.

DI and distilled are not the same. in short RO/DI is stripped of everything and it's only wet.


excert from a website below

benefits to using http://www.fishlore.com/reverse_osmosis_deionization.htm"><span style="color: #000000">RO/DI</span></a> water, mainly, that it's nothing else, no sediments, no phosphates, no silicates, etc, just pure H2O. Distilled water will not have the [IMG]http://www.fishlore.com/fishdictionary/c.htm#chlorine"><span style="color: #000000">chlorine</span></a> in it, but may still contain all the other stuff. You may notice significant algae due to using distilled water vs. RO/DI

[IMG]http://www.fishlore.com/fishforum/reverse-osmosis-deionization/36376-ro-di-distilled.html">http://www.fishlore.com/fishforum/reverse-osmosis-deionization/36376-ro-di-distilled.html</a>

 

[stickx911]

dis·til·la·tion [dis-tl-ey-shuh&#8201;n]
noun
1.
the volatilization or evaporation and subsequent condensation of a liquid, as when water is boiled in a retort and the steam is condensed in a cool receiver.
2.
the purification or concentration of a substance, the obtaining of the essence or volatile properties contained in it, or the separation of one substance from another, by such a process.

^dictionary.com, so not exactly the best source or applicable documentation for discussion.

unless the impurities have the same boiling point...the remaining water should be just as clean or better than rodi?

Sorry not fighting...just educated discussion. So don't think I'm trying to attack or be "smart"

I don't mind being proven wrong, but the opinion on another forum wont sway me.

The label just said it serves the same purpose as distilled, I was just hypothesising they use RODI as it is just another way, cheaper way most likely, to achieve 0ppm.

 

[eagle9252]

no fighting here...

i goggled di vs distilled and that was the first thing that popped up.

distilled is by far better than ro. i used distilled in my cpap machine for ever untill i spoke to the doctor about ro/di water. he asked me sveral things and then said sure. its as good if not better than distilled. as some things will stransfer through the condenstion as will there our filters. you will never be 100% clean all of the time

<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: Verdana">It was mainly a rebuttal against what you said “so I assume their purified water is rodi”</span></span>

 

[underthestars]

IMO the posting in the other forum is way off the mark. I'm not expressing an opinion on whether distilled is good for our use, but I do know that distilled has nothing in it, because it is the product of evaporation and to the best of my knowledge steam contains no minerals.

With regard to the other sources, I tried the machines at Publix for awhile, but found it to be too unpredictable. I believe it is RODI water, but I was getting readings between 1 & 15. I went back to the LFS...three to be exact. Two of them ranged between 2 & 20. Pure Reef is the only one of the three that has been dependable 0 - 2.

 

[eagle9252]

are you sure of the RODI as it is unfit to drink. not saying you cant but they say dont because the good stuff that you can drink has been removed in the RODI systems that you use at home or at the lfs. also they say not to drink distilled but it still has some stuff in it.

i personnly have not tested it so i cant say but the reason that you use distilled water in a cpap is that the water is heated turnned back to vapor and it is breathed all night long. ro water still has some menerails in it that will coat the insides of the unit and will not work as designed and could cause issuse with the equipment or your health if used for a long period of time.

the units i have seen have filter RO water to which it's only missing the final stage of going through the di resin.

i personnaly would trust distilled over ro water any day if i could not get rodi water

 

[the-bubonic-one]

This is a cool new feature on our website.

 

[eagle9252]

The-Bubonic-One;816190 wrote: This is a cool new feature on our website.


http://www.publix.com/water/">http://www.publix.com/water/</a>[/QUOTE]



Whats the new feature? I dont understand

 

[the-bubonic-one]

eagle9252;816195 wrote: Whats the new feature? I dont understand

Tells you about each of Publix's water.

 

[stickx911]

The-Bubonic-One;816190 wrote: This is a cool new feature on our website.


http://www.publix.com/water/">http://www.publix.com/water/</a>[/QUOTE]

kinda cool. I was wrong on the filtration guess, but I expect/suppose the filters at the facility are maintained more often than the machines on site...I guess I should test the gallons more often to assure they stay 0ppm, maybe this was just a lucky batch for me?

good to know.

0ppm is 0ppm right? or are there other variables I have not considered?

I don't have a nuisance algae problem, so I'm not looking to solve issues, just looking to not create an issue by changing water sources.

 

[hughes81]

I used the glacier units at publix a couple of times as emergency water changes or if I had forgot to get water from lfs. Each time used I had algae with in a day in the tank. So I took a sample to my lfs to have water tested by tds and it was high 35 ppm. That was the last time I used glacier units.