Water Question

[HenOnAJuneBug]

I have very high iron, so I have an Air Injection Iron Removal system, then the clean water goes into the softener. If your water is salty, something is wrong. There should be no salt taste.

I suppose the injected air oxidizes the Fe so that it precipitates/settles, and can then be filtered?

 

[getaclue]

I suppose the injected air oxidizes the Fe so that it precipitates/settles, and can then be filtered?

Yes. The old system had a holding tank, and a chlorine feeder, so it used the chlorine to oxidize, and break down the Fe, then the softener would clean out the chlorine, and remaining Fe. The air injection works a lot better, and without chemicals. The media it uses is Katalox. It backwashes nightly. While that was all we really needed, I like softened water, and we already had the softener. We had it rebedded. The softener backwashes every third night. The brine cleans the resin in the softener, then there is at least one rinse cycle, which rinses the salt out of the media, so there is very little, if any salt coming through the lines.

 

[Pater est Pullis]

I've used the same nipples for over a year without an issue with iron messing them up.
My two hydro setups also use float valves and neither has stopped working from iron.

Last spring I installed a filter like this..
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I have it inline with my hose, no softener. A 1 micron filter works great and removes a lot of the iron. But it clogs up with iron and slows the flow so the filter needs cleaning every two weeks. I paid about $32 Ca plus about $6 for the 1 micron filter.

Is it possible larger particles are clogging up your filter? Think I'll try slaving in another filter assembly, a 5 micron as a pre-filter, to the 1 micron, might increase service life of the filters.

 

[PingoBags]

Is it possible larger particles are clogging up your filter? Think I'll try slaving in another filter assembly, a 5 micron as a pre-filter, to the 1 micron, might increase service life of the filters.

Tried a 5 micron only, didn't seem to catch much. The 1 micron does catch a lot, if not all of my iron.
I have another setup which uses a 5 and 1 micron. The 5 micron is before the 1 yet the 1 catches mostly everything. I'm ok with cleaning it. The 5 micron probably would only need cleaning every 6 months but I do them both at the same time.

 

[Pater est Pullis]

Tried a 5 micron only, didn't seem to catch much. The 1 micron does catch a lot, if not all of my iron.
I have another setup which uses a 5 and 1 micron. The 5 micron is before the 1 yet the 1 catches mostly everything. I'm ok with cleaning it. The 5 micron probably would only need cleaning every 6 months but I do them both at the same time.

Thanks, saves me from experimenting, I'll go with the 1 micron.