Rain Water Debate

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    :fight:Sould it be used at all, If not - WHY?
     
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    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.
     
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    Any more debate? what about a roof maintained and cleaned on a regular basis?
     
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    Especially if it rains oil from time to time...:mad: parts of CT has this problem.
     
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    I dont have these problems luckily.
     
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    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
     
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    Ouch!!!! Sorry to hear that Henk. You the same Henk from SA reefkeeping Site?
     
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    yes the one and only d@@s :D

    i made him remove the fish when he moved out... didnt want his sick fish
     
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    Good on ya boy. Still got your marines?
     
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    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.
     
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    :sick:You calling me dirty?????
     
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    LOL - Nah, I'm calling your WATER dirty :D:D
     
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    All is good, Think Ill have a shower anyway, fish house building - She not so clean!!!
     
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    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
     
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    rather get an RO unit :D
     
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    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.
     
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