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Review on πŸ’§ Revitalize Your Water with Aquatic Life Booster Reverse Osmosis System by Lagant Wardrick

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Better than 1:1 production! (SpectraPure 180 gpd)

Just received today and hooked up as soon as I got home. First, I run it on a SpectraPure manual flush at 180 gallons/day, which is the equivalent of 2 consecutive 90 gallon/day membranes, and I run a second charcoal instead of DI because I use it for my discus cymbals. AquaticLife told me it might not work, but after reading reviews from people who had the same system, they said it worked great, so I decided to give it a try. With my old setup I got over a 4:1 drop at 40psi and 68 degrees by connecting to my washing machine. My reverse osmosis system feeds directly to my ATO sumps as well as 2x60g water aging/mixing stations. I do about 300g per week in the winter with higher ATO evaporation and water changes. Needless to say, my water bill is not happy. So after hooking it up I did some production comparisons. My blood pressure went up to 80psi initially which is a win. After some flow calculations I get +160 gallons per day (+7 gallons per hour) production with only 120 gallons per day (5 gallons per hour) waste. Now I'm doing 1:0.74 to the wastewater filtered! I had to check all the connections and test tds because it was way better than I thought. Of course 160 td from delivery, 2 td from membranes and 400 td from waste. The dross is probably gone because I tested it in a bucket that probably had residue in it and it was a cheap portable meter, but the other readings are from my built in 3-way TDS on my system, but I digress. Bottom line, it exceeded my expectations and was easy to connect to my system. I'll update if there are any quality issues or crashes, but for now this seems like a better buy than the double price SpectraPure booster. Of course, according to the first calculations, it will pay for itself in a few months thanks to the water savings.

Pros
  • Under Sink & Countertop Filtration
Cons
  • Legacy Model