RODI setup and operation ???

[Saltydrip]

I live in an old stone house built in 1707. It's old!! My bathroom and kitchen are on the opposite end of the house and to be honest I would like to have my RODI next to my tank up in my room. It's the only place safe from my dogs and the dust nag grime of a 300+ year old bachelor pad. My GF suggested getting I nice old dry sink and mounting it all iside there and keep a 5gal bucket under it as a catch can and i could set another bucket on top of the drysink and have a tap on the side of the bucket that I could hook up and supply the RODI. Is a gravity feed like that enough to work? I only have a 65g system so I don't need much more than 10g to do a water change. Pluss it would be a great place to stash all my food and chemicals.

[crankbait]

If i understand correctly your wanting to gavity feed an rodi unit its water? If thats the case no way. Water going into the unit has to be under pressure. Pretty high pressure too! By the way where do you live that has a habitable home built in the 1700s???? I thought something that old would be a museum or a land mark!!!! Too cool. Have any ghost storys?

[jupiter22]

Hi I'm Janet from Quebec. I have a 14 gal biocube about 3 months into cycling. I bought a coralife R/O unit (50 gal) and would like to start using it for my water changes. Does anyone know how gradual I have to go (I've been using bottled water for my changes)? And besides the salt, do I still need to add anything to the cycled water? Any advice I can get would be greatly appreciated

[Exxotic]

Definitely not going to work by gravity feeding your Ro/Di unit. You can look into booster pumps that will push the water from your sink area.... But i dont know how nice that will look if your tank is across the house and you have a feed line running that far...
I would say just plumb it under your sink and get a pressurized storage tank so you can have 10gs of clean water on hand at all time... Good luck Hope that helped

[Saltydrip]

How much pressure is needed?? I can add a booster. I would rather not add it to my sink. I have no problem adding a booster and making it work.

[Saltydrip]

Oh yea.... I'm in southeast PA about 45 min drive west of philli. My girlfriends house is older. Built in 1683. It's been in there family since they baught the land from William Penn. It's pretty cool. Her parents house is about 200yds away and built in 1702. All three houses are registered historical sights. I wish I could buy this house but it's on 60 acres and it's owned buy the local school district actually. They want to turn the land into sports fields and the house will probably just rot away after I move out.