How effective are domestic water filter jugs?!

[Katy52]

Hello fellow Cham owners,

Happy weekend!

I am debating which method to use to purify my MistKing water and would really appreciate some advice

I know RO water is generally the purist to use but I’ve read some owners use a domestic water filter jug like this -

• https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B003QXM3U8/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_3?smid=A2PBL6EGK67AT3&psc=1

• (This premium model claims to produce 0TDS and be similar to RO)

My city tap water is very hard (high kh levels) so it leaves a lot of white water marks in the enclosure & deposits on the mist heads.

Do these filter jugs effectively prevent white marks?!

For various reasons an RO system is complicated for me to install at home so I’m curious if this can be an ‘okay’ alternative.

As always, thank you for your time & help!

Katy

 

[kinyonga]

BRITA does not filter out the limestone (calcium and magnesium) that makes the white marks on the glass…
https://www.brita.com.au/news-stories/consumer/what-is-limescale

 

[charmsthechameleon]

I just let water sit out with no lid for 24 hours

 

[Beman]

Zero water filters are the only one that I have used that actually filters out everything and makes it more like RO water. Granted I replace my filter every 30 days for it. Comes with a sensor probe thing that tells you the TDS levels of the water. With a brand new filter it is at 0. Google it.

This is the only one that I would recommend to filter out hard water.

There are also RO filter systems that you can attach to a faucet. @MissSkittles has one of these.

 

[Katy52]

Zero water filters are the only one that I have used that actually filters out everything and makes it more like RO water. Granted I replace my filter every 30 days for it. Comes with a sensor probe thing that tells you the TDS levels of the water. With a brand new filter it is at 0. Google it.

This is the only one that I would recommend to filter out hard water.

There are also RO filter systems that you can attach to a faucet. @MissSkittles has one of these.

Hi Beman!

Thank you as always for being so helpful, you are the Cham oracle!

Great to know how often you replace the filter.

I have researched RO systems but read that they produce a lot of waste water so they can be expensive to run & slow to produce without good tap pressure?

I don’t have an easy faucet it can be attached to so it seems like a lot of faffing about to make it work in my scenario!

Katy x

 

[Katy52]

BRITA does not filter out the limestone (calcium and magnesium) that makes the white marks on the glass…
https://www.brita.com.au/news-stories/consumer/what-is-limescale

Thank you Kinyonga, that’s the kind of explanation I was trying to find

(My dad uses a Britta for his fancy coffee machine, he’s going to be devasted when I forward this info )

 

[Beman]

Hi Beman!

Thank you as always for being so helpful, you are the Cham oracle!

Great to know how often you replace the filter.

I have researched RO systems but read that they produce a lot of waste water so they can be expensive to run & slow to produce without good tap pressure?

I don’t have an easy faucet it can be attached to so it seems like a lot of faffing about to make it work in my scenario!

Katy x

lol my pleasure. I have the same issue with not having a faucet I could easily attach to. I used to go get gallons of RO but honestly it was a pain being as how my room with Beman is upstairs. I looked into all of the different ones and zero is the only brand that actually filters out the hard water substances along with any additives your city might put into it.

I use it for one cage and run a total of 18 minutes worth of mistings a day. So for me I replace it every 30 days. I have forgotten a few times and you can tell by smell when the filter goes bad because the water has a fishy smell to it. Made the mistake of putting that in my cage and the entire room smelled like nasty fish lol. So yeah I now just replace it every 1st of the month. I order the 4 pack replacement filters on amazon as that is the cheapest per filter I have found anywhere. I bought both the pitcher version and the one that sits on a surface that you have to push the nozzle. I hated that one. While it can hold a lot more water you have to sit and hold the nozzle to get it to release water. So I switched to the pitcher and fill it full 2 times which provides enough water to my reservoir for the mistings.

 

[MissSkittles]

I have researched RO systems but read that they produce a lot of waste water so they can be expensive to run & slow to produce without good tap pressure?

I use this RO unit. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DOG63OY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It’s quite easy to attach to my kitchen sink. I remove the aerator and put on the filter. Just about every type of kitchen faucet will or should have a screw on/off aerator. I have no idea how great my water pressure is…I guess it’s average. It does waste a considerable amount of water and this does bother me, but I’ve really no where I could even use the waste water if I collected it. It takes me about 15-20 minutes to make a gallon of RO water I think - haven’t ever timed it.
Another way to get RO water is to buy it from an aquarium shop. It’s pretty inexpensive and I would do this but I’m really not able to haul dozens of gallons of water around so easily anymore.