A good place to start is with
pure fresh water. Think Reverse Osmosis Systems (RO Water
for Drinking) De-Ionization System (DI Water for Aquarium Use).
T-off your system to a drinking water reservoir to save the cost and disposal of
bottled water.A TDS (total dissolved solids) test of a bottled water sample
- reading is 95.
For the aquarium, we're looking for 0 or very nearly so. Note that our tap water
reads close to 400 and the TDS manual says water near 500 is unsafe for human
consumption. Hmm.