High tap PH + PPM

What to do with tap water that's 9.6 PH and 700ppm? Suggestions welcome. I think it's having an ill effect on my cloning success. This is in tap water that's been left out for 12 hours too.

Note: I do use PH down (obviously in large quantities)

Thanks!

shit my tap is 8.2 and 250ppm and i thought that was high. 700 is out of control.

adjusting the ph won't have any adverse affects, the ppm shouldnt be an issue, mine is around 480, nutrients say to do the desired EC or PPM ontop of the water EC/PPM anyway..

IMO 700 is too high of a PPM to start with. My tap is around 300-400 with a PH of around 7.0
I picked up an R/O system and I add Cal-Mag to the water to make up for what is stripped out. Again, in my opinion, I would rather start out from scratch with some clean RO water and make my own soup, rather then have to work around high PPM's.
This is the one I have http://www.filterwater.com/pc-108-18-portable-reverse-osmosis-system.aspx?affid=10058 gets me down around 15-30 PPM

TomGreenThumb said:

IMO 700 is too high of a PPM to start with. My tap is around 300-400 with a PH of around 7.0
I picked up an R/O system and I add Cal-Mag to the water to make up for what is stripped out. Again, in my opinion, I would rather start out from scratch with some clean RO water and make my own soup, rather then have to work around high PPM's.
This is the one I have http://www.filterwater.com/pc-108-18-portable-reverse-osmosis-system.aspx?affid=10058 gets me down around 15-30 PPM

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never seen portable before i love it. but 20 gpd is to small for me but i bet i might find a bigger one no? +rep man, thanks

oh and if you can drink it you can grow with it

700 ppm doesn't leave much room for NPK bro. The best option is reverse osmosis, but if you're too cheap you'd wanna cut that tapwater with grocery store distilled or something. Here's a reverse osmosis with de-ionization for cheap. get you a Roughneck tote for res and you're good to go. http://www.airwaterice.com/product/1COMPACT/Compact_75_GPD_Reefkeeper_RODI.html That site has the best deals on filters that I have found, so if that $140 system doesn't do it for you (why wouldn't it?), browse.

That tapwater is going to fade any filter really fast so you should probably change out at least 3 times per year, but if you get a flush valve you may only need to change out the pre-filters that often. Good luck.