Why RO Water?

PetFlora

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Municipal and/or well water can contain and untold (and unknown) amount of pollutants (pharmaceuticals) that may take months before they rear their ugly head, and make you scratch yours trying to find out what the hell happened to your girls. If you don't want to expose your plants to them, why would you?

If I was in the market today, I would consider a Merlin for its high volume, it seems like a great choice for growers- especially DWC/hydro. Good price lots of product water.

Here's an article that should move you to act...



Farmed Fish Spread Steroids: Microbial Solution Sought
Could bacteria clean up rivers and streams contaminated by steroids from tilapia farms?
by Craig Weatherby

No, this is not a tilapia on steroids. Click for full story and printer friendly version
Baseball stars, bodybuilders and cyclists have used steroids. Now it turns out that even farmed fish get "juiced".

Fish farmers feed infant tilapia a masculine steroid hormone called methyltestosterone (MT) to ensure that they turn out male.

The MT steroid fed to tilapia early in their life cycle is no longer present in the fishes' flesh when people consume them.

But the male hormone is potentially harmful to other fish and to tilapia-farm workers ... and to local residents who drink from or wade and swim in streams fed by waters from tilapia farms.

Now, researchers in Mexico have found some bacteria that like to make a meal of methyltestosterone.

The discovery may result in a safer environment for farm workers and nearby residents and wildlife ... and it has global implications, given that tilapia is raised in more than 100 countries.

Tilapia producers add MT hormone to the powdered food they dish out to large tanks of tiny tilapias called ...
 
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