Rain Water Debate

[gaf7808]

:fight:Sould it be used at all, If not - WHY?

[Henk Hugo]

no - if you live in a big city there is alot of crap on your roof that will wash into the holding tank every time it rains and poison the water.

[gaf7808]

Any more debate? what about a roof maintained and cleaned on a regular basis?

[theosmit]

Especially if it rains oil from time to time...:mad: parts of CT has this problem.

[gaf7808]

I dont have these problems luckily.

[Henk Hugo]

yea - the idiot that i bought the house from had the main gutter run into the koi pond... i stay like 4km from the refinery.... his fish were fullllllllllllll of ulcers etc

[gaf7808]

Ouch!!!! Sorry to hear that Henk. You the same Henk from SA reefkeeping Site?

[Henk Hugo]

yes the one and only d@@s :D

i made him remove the fish when he moved out... didnt want his sick fish

[gaf7808]

Good on ya boy. Still got your marines?

[veegal]

Personally I wouldn't use rain water either - perhaps 100 years ago or so - but not with all the pollution, oil, smog etc we now have. And I think, and stand to be corrected, that Cape Town has less of a pollution problem than places like Jo'burg.

[gaf7808]

:sick:You calling me dirty?????

[veegal]

:sick:You calling me dirty?????

LOL - Nah, I'm calling your WATER dirty :D:D

[gaf7808]

All is good, Think Ill have a shower anyway, fish house building - She not so clean!!!

[butcherman]

Any more debate? what about a roof maintained and cleaned on a regular basis?
maintained ... how often everytime a bird poops on it? everytime a plane flys overhead?
cleaned... how? chemicals? with a broom?....

just to much effort imo

[Henk Hugo]

rather get an RO unit :D

[theosmit]

You might generally be OK, but is it worth risking your fish like that? You do not have any control over the conditions up there...Where I live I wouldn't dare.