Water Conditioner ---OPINIONS PLEASE---
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MATT2504
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How you getting on with the Brita filter? that's the route iam going to go down! do you change your filter monthly as recommended or at a different interval?
Zen Reptiles
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Brita does great marketing.
But that's all they do well.
All Brita is rated to get out of the water is (taken from the user guide) http://www.brita.com/pdf/BritaUsersGuide.pdf
Copper
Mercury
Cadmium
Chloride
Zinc
This is taken from the official Brita User Guide
If you filtered out ONE contaminant out of ONE THOUSAND contaminants, you can essentially, legally say that water with 999 contaminants is 'safer' or 'healthier' to drink than the original water with 1000 contaminants. Does that mean it is SAFE or HEALTHY? No, not at all. Wording is so important, and that's why Brita can get away with it.
All Brita does is reduce some chlorine compounds and heavy metals, and make the water taste good. It is designed to only remove things that affect the taste of water. NOT the quality or safety.
In layman's terms: it fools your taste buds into thinking it's clean. Which is what activated carbon does. It's just like adding salt to food.
But that's all they do well.
All Brita is rated to get out of the water is (taken from the user guide) http://www.brita.com/pdf/BritaUsersGuide.pdf
Copper
Mercury
Cadmium
Chloride
Zinc
This is taken from the official Brita User Guide
If you filtered out ONE contaminant out of ONE THOUSAND contaminants, you can essentially, legally say that water with 999 contaminants is 'safer' or 'healthier' to drink than the original water with 1000 contaminants. Does that mean it is SAFE or HEALTHY? No, not at all. Wording is so important, and that's why Brita can get away with it.
All Brita does is reduce some chlorine compounds and heavy metals, and make the water taste good. It is designed to only remove things that affect the taste of water. NOT the quality or safety.
In layman's terms: it fools your taste buds into thinking it's clean. Which is what activated carbon does. It's just like adding salt to food.
MATT2504
Established Member
Ok it looks as if you seem to know what your talking about! So would you use botteled water or brita water? as not all can afford RO.
Zen Reptiles
Avid Member
You can get great reverse osmosis filtration for under 200$, which ends up costing less than constantly using a Brita. The ones I recommend are the 5 Stage Goldline Reverse Osmosis. In Germany, I'm sure there are many great options for you. Germany is like 10 years a head of us 
You can also get some 2 or 3 stage reverse osmosis filters for under 150$.
I wouldn't recommend any other bottled waters than Aquafina.
High iron content destroys some filters, and most filters won't get rid of any microbiologically unsafe critters in your water. So it's good to find out what's in your water, and then buy a filter based on what you find.
Edit: the post above is right, you can get gallons and gallons of pure water for fairly cheap at the vending machines inside grocery stores or outside water businesses. Just make sure you disinfect your bottles, clean your cooler reservoir, and discard the water jug after it's been refilled 40 times (then the plastic starts to wear down exponentially and you can get some nasty chemicals in there).
You can also get some 2 or 3 stage reverse osmosis filters for under 150$.I wouldn't recommend any other bottled waters than Aquafina.
High iron content destroys some filters, and most filters won't get rid of any microbiologically unsafe critters in your water. So it's good to find out what's in your water, and then buy a filter based on what you find.
Edit: the post above is right, you can get gallons and gallons of pure water for fairly cheap at the vending machines inside grocery stores or outside water businesses. Just make sure you disinfect your bottles, clean your cooler reservoir, and discard the water jug after it's been refilled 40 times (then the plastic starts to wear down exponentially and you can get some nasty chemicals in there).
Elizadolots
New Member
I purchased a small distiller for around $80 which can distill a gallon in 5 hours. For me, with my one little chameleon, that's more than enough. I don't even run it every day. I hope to get a new chameleon in the next few months so will need more clean water, but that just means running it more.
My big bugaboo is fluoride. I really believe (meaning, I have no proof) that they don't tolerate it well and as my city fluoridates, I clean my water.
Any such investment in hardware will ultimately repay itself. In my case, we do buy filtered water for drinking, but if I added my chameleons needs to that it would mean making my husband do an extra trip to the water store every week. I figured the $80 investment paid itself off in about a week by avoiding that issue entirely.
My big bugaboo is fluoride. I really believe (meaning, I have no proof) that they don't tolerate it well and as my city fluoridates, I clean my water.
Any such investment in hardware will ultimately repay itself. In my case, we do buy filtered water for drinking, but if I added my chameleons needs to that it would mean making my husband do an extra trip to the water store every week. I figured the $80 investment paid itself off in about a week by avoiding that issue entirely.
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