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QUESTION: Hi,

I live in Walnut Cove, NC in zone 7. My question is do most RO units have a connection where you can tie in a pipe from the house? I intend to put mine under my crawspace and tie in a cold water line and then tie in a line from the filter into a garden spicot. The only water coming out of the spicot would be purified. I just hope it's possible to do something like that. About venus's flytraps I want to know if it's possible to feed them things like slugs, snails, and earthworms. They are fleshy and the plant might react like it would if I had fed them hamburger. If they can handle it then that would be cool because I regard these critters as pests. Thanks!

ANSWER: Hi Daniel,

Usually R.O. units will have just 1/2" or 1/4" rigid plastic tubing coming off them.  What you need to do is go to a good local hardware store to help you out.  Avoid Lowes or Home Depot unless you already have good knowledge of plumbing attachments.  I did this and our local True Value hardware store here in Estacada, OR was wonderful.  I was trying to rig ours to operate off of 3/4" garden hose attachments.  It took a couple diffferent adapters to make that happen, and they knew exactly what I needed.  It sounds like you are trying to do something similar.  Is your R.O. unit one with a tank, or is it like the GE Merlin that's on-demand?

On feeding the Venus flytraps, I've once in awhile given a larger flytrap a tiny slug or two, but not on a regular basis.  If the animal is too big it can cause the trap to rot.  If your plants are good and healthy, once in awhile is fine.


Good Growing!

Jeff Dallas
Sarracenia Northwest
http://www.cobraplant.com

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QUESTION: Hi,
I don't exactly know but what I'm looking at is from aquacon.com and they are called coral life II pure flo and they use cannisters. I hope this helps!

Answer
Hi Daniel,

This is pretty typical RO unit.  It has 1/4" lines.  You should be able to find whatever adapters needed to fit it.  The description says it already has the 3/4" garden hose fitting for the input water.  If you plumb it to an outdoor spigot you probably need to have a barrel or some other collection method since the output of these units is fairly small.

Good Growing!

Jeff Dallas
Sarracenia Northwest
http://www.cobraplant.com