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  1. Selling Hat's Reef

    Over the last few month I've been contemplating selling my reef system. I LOVE my reef! My wife lost her job late last year and has been looking for a job ever since. She is an accountant. There are no jobs. So, I'm selling my tank this weekend. I posted my reef on FaceBook a few weeks ago and someone contacted me and wants it. We really need the money so I agreed.

    I'm very sad that I have to sell my reef, but I'm doing it for more than the money. I'm starting grad school ...
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  2. Another question for the RO pros!

    My incoming TDS is high. Extremely high. 750+ high. That being said my 4-stage does a very good job of getting it down. Usually averaging less than 30, sometimes 20. Well below the 5% accepted return. That's great for drinking water, but 20-30 TDS entering my DI is literally just exhausted a 10" BRS "Nuclear Grade" resin refill within 200 gallons. I am running this filter array:
    5 Micron Purtrex sediment filter
    5 Micron Matrikx+CTO/2
    Carbon Block
    1 Micron
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