Starting up salt tank

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I am currently starting up my tank this evening. Live sand and dry live rock are in. My ro/di running but very slow filling up 5 gallon buckets of water. If it gets early late tonight can I finish with tap water or can I leave it sit until morning? What's my options?

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Congratulations on the new adventure. My recommendation is to wait until morning to finish it with RO. Good luck!
 
I am currently starting up my tank this evening. Live sand and dry live rock are in. My ro/di running but very slow filling up 5 gallon buckets of water. If it gets early late tonight can I finish with tap water or can I leave it sit until morning? What's my options?

Thank you
Tap water not advisable as the amount of Alk in tap water can potentially double this number easily and affect CA and PH not to mention content of heavy metals, chloramine, polluants. flouride and other elements not contained in sea water. tap water also offers no ph buffering and note many areas have copper in their tap water which you do not want in your system. Next will be phosphates in water which will cause further issues.
As you can see - Risk is the issue
 
You could add a powerhead or a small air stone if you have an air pump, but neither are a necessity.
 
Another question, I'm getting roughly 5 gallons of ro/di water every hour. I did not realize how slow it was. Is this normal?
 
Most RODI units are based on a gallons per day rate (GPD). If you have a 100 GPD system then you reasonably could expect a little over 4 gallons per hour. It isn't exactly like watching paint dry, but it sure seems close when you are waiting on the water!
 
Exactly. I have a brute garbage can coming so I'll fill it up to have 30 plus gallons on hand when doing water changes or topping off
 
It is good to have some type of shut off that doesn't rely on your memory. Don't ask me how I know this.
 
Lol experience huh

I bought a float shut off valve that I'm going to install this weekend once I get my tank filled up
 
We have all forgot once or twice and remembered in the morning when stepping in a huge puddle of water
It’s funny how that works…waiting on the Rodi water is agonizingly slow but the minute you fall asleep with it running it floods EVERYWHERE…. Like it knows your asleep and ramps up production to cover as much of your floor as it can. :face-with-tears-of-joy:
 
It’s funny how that works…waiting on the Rodi water is agonizingly slow but the minute you fall asleep with it running it floods EVERYWHERE…. Like it knows your asleep and ramps up production to cover as much of your floor as it can. :face-with-tears-of-joy:
Maybe I need to take a nap to get it running faster
 
It’s funny how that works…waiting on the Rodi water is agonizingly slow but the minute you fall asleep with it running it floods EVERYWHERE…. Like it knows your asleep and ramps up production to cover as much of your floor as it can. :face-with-tears-of-joy:
As funny as it sounds .
It’s not funny at all waking up to 2” of water .
Or getting the water bill and a letter from the utilities stating there is issue and must have a leak as I have used 6x the volume of water compared to other families
 
It got to the point where my wife finally said do whatever you need to do so you stop flooding the place.

I now have a fully automated saltwater mixing station with plenty of bells and whistles. :)
 

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