Do brita filters work?

i was thinking i might buy a brita water filter instead of a ro filter because they are cheaper. anybody ever use a brita?

i actually use a pur water filter,the one you screw onto the faucet,its basically the same,yeah they work
they usually neutralized the ph and the chlorine,people on here done great grows using only tap water so i know this will work for sure

yes they work realy well for my dwc. have a home rig using a pump and 2 maxi systems takes me about an 1hr 45mins to do 60lts's .
never have cleaned my system during a grow while using filtered water, without my system won't even make a week befor needing a clean.
also leave my filtered water for 24hr with air pump running befor i use it makes my ph buch more staible.

growem green-------------------spike.

spenceg said:

i was thinking i might buy a brita water filter instead of a ro filter because they are cheaper. anybody ever use a brita?

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Unfortunately if your tapwater has a high ppm a britta filter won't lower it. Britta is just an activated carbon filter which filters out some heavy metal contaminants and chlorine/chloramine. It doesn't filter much of the stuff that makes hard water hard, like calcium carbonate. If your water is extremely hard an r/o filter is really the only way to go. I did an experiment to see what would happen when I ran my tapwater through a carbon filter. The ppm actually went up a little after it was filtered (and this was a new filter). So a britta may help you a little bit but it really is no substitute for a reverse osmosis filter. Best of luck my friend.

should work wonders.,.,.,just watch for elevated levels of minerals.,.,i was in a thread a month or so ago,.,.,where a plant got nute lock from the excess minerals/./././but all in all it would work fine

yes i might buy one of those too.. but there is none where i live, anyone got a suggestion?

I also heard of using water tablets? neone recommend any type? where u get'em?