FlytrapCare Carnivorous Plant Forums

Sponsored by FlytrapStore.com

Discuss water requirements, "soil" (growing media) and suitable planting containers

Moderator: Matt

By Adam Miller
Posts:  37
Joined:  Tue May 21, 2019 11:09 pm
#338617
Recently found an nsa water filter would this be good enough for well water my water just has minerals in it
By bananaman
Posts:  2059
Joined:  Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:54 am
#338620
Carbon filters are not sufficient. They remove chlorine and organics from water, but they don’t remove minerals.

If you want to use a filter to make water for your carnivorous plants, it has to be a reverse osmosis or deionization filter.
User avatar
By nimbulan
Location: 
Posts:  2397
Joined:  Fri Feb 28, 2014 9:03 pm
#338624
Carbon filters will remove some minerals, but generally not much. It's not what they're designed for. You either need a filter that also contains DI resin (the ZeroWater brand is the only one I'm aware of) or a reverse osmosis system.
User avatar
By Artchic528
Location: 
Posts:  662
Joined:  Sat Aug 15, 2015 8:13 pm
#338638
I use my tap water because it's less than 50ppm. Otherwise I just let the rain do the watering for me.

Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
Atlanta Georgia Meetup

So sorry I can’t make it for this one. If th[…]

Finally

After a few nights in the 20s I can finally put th[…]

Hunting D. Binata

I'm hunting D. Binata Dichotoma Giant, D Binata Mu[…]

The plants will eat some of the mosquito larvae, b[…]

it says it can be reproduced vegetatively or by […]

It's slowly dying due to lack of light. These need[…]

This request is over two weeks old. If confirmatio[…]

Flower stalks for sale

Hello! I'd like one of each of the following (es[…]

Support the community - Shop at FlytrapStore.com!