Anyone ever collected rain water for their tank?

[CudaScott]

wondering if anyone has ever used rain water in a reef tank?

 

[James M]

IMO that doesn’t sound like a great idea.

 

[Js.Aqua.Project]

I think it would depend on where you are...

Inner city NY/LA? Heck no.

Middle of no where? Quite possibly, as long as you can get it into your reservoir cleanly.

My wife and I honeymooned in Bermuda where all of the drinking water is collected from rain, quite literally the best water I have ever had to drink.

Me any my desire to put only known clean water into my tank, I would find a way to still run it through an RODI system first.

 

[MnFish1]

wondering if anyone has ever used rain water in a reef tank?

Why? The TDS of Rainwater can be 10-100 or more - and you will never know 'whats in it'. What would be the benefit?

 

[Cory]

I used melted snow in my tank once. Zero tds. No problems from it. I had no problems using it. Ive been considering using it exclusively with my upcoming greenhouse system im building. I like the idea because the tds should be near zero and if I ran it through an ro it would eliminate most everything else im assuming. The only questionable thing was it taste like plastic. But this is snow and not rainwater.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Here we have acid rain. Never for me