Fresh RO water

[veen]

How would one go about keeping the water from a RO machine in a 50 Gallon garbage can fresh and free of algae etc.... Hydrogen Peroxide? The water will be in there for probably 2 weeks give or take a couple days...

All help so far has been Highly benificial so far so Thanks in advance!!
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[oldgrayhair]

Providing you get a food safe garbage can...I recommend Rubbermaid Brutes, it will be fine with the lid on it. If overly concerned you can add an airstone...but I've stored water in these for months with no issues.

[The _Selecta]

add the airstones, then you can have the benefit of having not only RO water but super oxygenated RO water! yum

[twojoints]

no reason to add airstones imo. that just makes the chance of algae growth greater.

my RO system stores in a 3gal tank, its a steel tank that is completely sealed from light.

basically, since RO water is supposedly sterile, just keep it air and light tight. it wont go bad. make sure there is NO light whatsoever getting through. even many black containers let some light through. use a strong flashlight right up against the container to see if any light gets through.

[Guest]

I've kept my RO in a rubbermaid tote for a few weeks, no problems (not light proof but in a dark room). I would think the air pump would push mold spores into the res making it more likely to cause problems. H2O2 seems the best option. maybe you can stir it daily.

[Gtotoys]

no to the aitstone I feel.

[surfingrob]

No to airtsones? That sounds a bit off. I've been running airstones in my res's for years now, and I find that there's a strange buildup on top of the water if I don't use it. When you aerate water the free oxygen molecules attach themselves to radical organic particles and destroy them, its the same effect as adding h202 just at a much smaller scale.

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[f-e]

my local food store bottle table water on site. its tap water, through an ro machine. if they cared then a handfull of nice tastey minerals would go in with it, but its a cheap store. If goes in clear bottles, on the shelf, and i dare say the 'best before' date is about a year away and non goes green.
infact, ive never seen a bottle of water go green, and ive had some in my car a year or more and there out the ground. You just shake them well, exchange the air in the bottle, shake again, and it tastes fine.

two weeks? just walk away. it will still be there. its millions of years old. 2 weeks not hurt it. hit it with oxyplus to clean it up if you really want to.

stored with or without oxygen makes no odds. there are aerobic and non aerobic bacteria. some like oxygen, some hate it. you cant win, it just wants to be clean in the first place and sealed up to a degree. pumping air through it will do it no favours

[acidnI_livE]

i have about 100 gallons of RO water stored at all times in case of a flush or something ( Obsessive compulsive) and it gets stored in everything frome five gallon buckets to 2 litre pop bottles and cranberry juice bottles.

some have been sitting for like a year and i use them when i mix nutes up and all seems well.

i dont see water going "stale" as long as it is air tight i really dont think light getting to just plain filtered RO water with nothing added to it will cause any ill efffects.

now for a res. yeah light tight is a must more than air tight is but both air and light tight for a rez. is optimal.

but just for storing the water after if comes out of the filter, i believe any airtight container will do. as long as nothing but ro water is in them (no nutes or any additives)

if im wrong about this what should i storre my RO in i hand water so i dont have a resorvoir full of a nute mix sitting around.