Habitat - Indoor :: Tap water?

[MerryMenagerie]

Yeah, they were $5 each, compared to less than $2 for the nylon. I bought the DuPont whole house filter.

[Kansasslider]

Something else to keep in mind. Coconut carbon filters are the best. And you can buy them from E-bay cheap! I also let the water run through the filter rather slowly to remove more chlorine & Chloramine.

[MerryMenagerie]

It came with a carbon filter...is a coconut carbon filter different? And how slowly?

[Kansasslider]

No the filters are the same except the kind of carbon. Coconut carbon is considered to be the best carbon for removing chlorine/ chloramine . The one that came with your filter is fine but coconut is better. I let mine run real slow less than half open more like 2/3 or less.. When I first used the filter and tested the water I was running the faucet wide open and testing still detected chlorine. I slowed the flow probably 2/3 and then it tested no chlorine/ chloramine. Your more than likely trying to remove chloramine.

[Kansasslider]

And I stand corrected again. Oh well I'm still learning. I did not know about Catalytic carbon until today. Its the best at removing chloramine.I found this site that sells it will check E-bay.

http://www.thefilterguys.biz/chloramine_filters.htm

[Kansasslider]

I found several on E-bay . VeipaCray knows a lot more about Water than I do hopefully he will chime in on this subject.

[ljapa]

Slow water is probably a good idea. I did some research on the chemistry behind how carbon breaks down chloramine, and it's a two step process. The first step produces chlorine. If your water is too fast, you may not get the second step in.

I don't run mine too slow, but I don't go too fast either. I use the stock filters.

VeipaCray had commented in a thread where I posted about the chemistry that he had purchased a chloramine kit and did not detect chloramine also using the stock kits. I don't know about water flow.

[VeipaCray]

http://www.wqa.org/pdf/techbulletins/tb-chloramine.pdf

I'm aware of both but don't know much about the difference between regular activated carbon and catalytic carbon.


The biggest piece that we're not accounting for is the amount of Chloramine in our local water supplies. I used a regular chloramine test kit found at Lowes and didn't measure any noticeable chloramines from water that has come from the filter. I don't know what my Chloramine level is in comparison to any of yours. My water municipal might use a higher or lower concentration. Also, I don't know how accurate those test kits are. It's not a laboratory grade kit or a digital meter that I used... I used the little dollar dip strip from Lowes.

I do believe and have seen passing water through these carbon filters DOES remove / reduce chloramine. How effective it is depends on your water supply, type of carbon etc. I would still rather run the water through carbon than dump some chemical into the water.

[Kansasslider]

I agree no chemicals! From what I have read water needs a lot longer contact time with regular carbon filters and a lot less with catalytic carbon. I still think coconut carbon filters are the best regular carbon filters.