Dehumidifier water

[reefrookie513]

I just set up a 180 in the living room and my humidity spiked to 60% so I am setting up a dehumidifier. I know there are going to be all kinds of answers to this but who thinks it’s ok to collect the water and reuse it in the aquarium?

 

[flooddc]

You can use for watering plants. Other than that I’d not use it for aquarium water.

 

[Mr. Bill]

Check the TDS. My guess is it will be fairly high. Dehumidifiers simply collect moisture from the air, contaminants and all.

 

[theMeat]

Yup, and the water likely had contact with metal in the process

 

[cracker]

Good advice above. That water probably passes thru copper or who knows what.

 

[Oscaror]

Yeah bad idea to reuse it. Id recomment getting an ATO system

 

[jda]

I would not use it on a reef - it can have organics in it as well as inorganic solids. I did use it for African Cichlids, though, but they love hard water.

 

[reefrookie513]

I have an ato. Just trying to go green. Guess I’ll just send it down the drain.