Do i have to change the water?

[Notsolostfish]

Little tiny accident while changing my sock tonight on my sump. I took the sock off, and while taking it off tiny water drops dropping in my ATO chamber. And now the water there reading from 0 tds to 58 on the tds meter. Do i change the water or i can leave it. Thank you

 

[Gtinnel]

No reason to change it. You just added a tiny bit of saltwater to your top off. It won’t hurt anything.

 

[SpyC]

Personally I would change it

 

[d2mini]

No, you do not need to change it.
No need to worry about a few drops of saltwater in your ATO, and no need to worry about a few drops of dirty sock water, which was in your sump anyway. Nothing changed.

 

[Garf]

Personally I would change it

Lol, why? It doesn’t stay at zero anyway

 

[vetteguy53081]

Little tiny accident while changing my sock tonight on my sump. I took the sock off, and while taking it off tiny water drops dropping in my ATO chamber. And now the water there reading from 0 tds to 58 on the tds meter. Do i change the water or i can leave it. Thank you

leave it. That precip will alter and dissipate and TDS will reduce

 

[SpyC]

Lol, why? It doesn’t stay at zero anyway

Why add dirty top off water to the tank? Water is cheap.

 

[Garf]

Why add dirty top off water to the tank? Water

Don’t know if you have a tank, but if so, do you consider the water dirty? He got a little tank water in his top off, no biggy

 

[SpyC]

Don’t know if you have a tank, but if so, do you consider the water dirty? He got a little tank water in his top off, no biggy

58 tds is a lot higher than the normal 0tds ro/di water has. It’s most likely only a few gallons so why not just replace it?

 

[Gtinnel]

58 tds is a lot higher than the normal 0tds ro/di water has. It’s most likely only a few gallons so why not just replace it?

Yes but the 58 tds (which still isn’t much) is all from stuff that was already in the tank. 58 tds in rodi water from unknown contaminants is a big deal, 58 tds from saltwater from the tank is no issue.

 

[HB AL]

I wouldn't overthink it, just let it be. The things I do would make some cringe, with no effects to the inhabitants. Just as an example I haven't done a water change in 6 years!

 

[Garf]

I wouldn't overthink it, just let it be. The things I do would make some cringe, with no effects to the inhabitants. Just as an example I haven't done a water change in 6 years!

Do you skim?

 

[edd59]

58 tds is a lot higher than the normal 0tds ro/di water has. It’s most likely only a few gallons so why not just replace it?

have you checked your ATO reservoir i dought its 0 TDS. its only 0 when it leaves the R/O unit

 

[HB AL]

Do you skim?

Yes