Customer Reviews

Mighty Mite 50GPD with DI Added

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I bought this unit for a saltwater aquarium. It was incredibly easy to install (it attaches to a sink faucet) and all you have to do to make it work is to turn the water on! I used Salifert test kits to evaluate the output, and it was top notch. The dKH of my source water was near 20. The output of this unit was 0!!! Phosphates and silicates also tested zero.

Initially, my product output was a little low, which I attributed to low flow from the faucet I used. But it gradually got worse and worse over the course of the first few weeks I used the unit. For instance, it took a week to fill my 150 gallon sump 3/4 of the way to the top. The I decided to test the unit, and I left it running full blast while hooked up to a high flow hose spigot (bought simple adapter from Menards). It produced 5 gallons in 24 hours.

Because the unit is modular I was able to test the water flow through each individual component. I determined that the RO unit itself was responsible for the low flow. I bought a replacement RO unit and I now use the DI unit from this machine with the unit to produce my aquarium water. I liked this unit a lot, but it only worked for a couple of weeks before the RO membrane apparently gave out.

I use this little guy to filter water to top off a custom saltwater aquarium. I have hundreds of dollars in test kits to make sure nothing other than pure water touches my corals, and this Mighty Mite has never failed to produce crystal clear pure water. Great product and well worth it for the price.