Water topic!

I use out town water because it is better than the water in most cities: http://www.ci.bend.or.us/depts/publi...yReportWEB.pdf

When we move full time to the ranch, I'll use our tested well water.

I use bottled water our city water is really nasty

I hate my city water. Tastes like chlorine. So i use some cheap bottled water from sams club. Its like 3 bucks for 24 bottles!!

I use tap water. I leave it out overnight to reduce the chlorine.

Im sure any water that they get, is better than the stagnant pools that they would be drinking out of in the Af

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

I never take the water stuff too seriously......we are keeping reptiles....not fish....unless the water has rat poison in it....we are good to go :)

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I dunno a lot of people in the rural southeast (A.K.A. farmers)drink unfiltered well water. Now look at the rates of CANCER. Think of all the pestices and fertilizers that slowly seep into the ground. I am not saying that cancer works the same way with reptiles or feeders as humans. But we all know these chemicals are bad and cancer is on the rise.

Reverse osmosis systems are great but they waste twice as much water as they produce. Reverse osmosis was originally developed for desalination. Large ions are filtered out but smaller molecules easily get through the membrane, such as pesticides.

Carbon filtration is another option. This technique actually traps tiny molecules in the microscopic crevices of the carbon matrix.

Just my 2c.

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Originally Posted by Blu Mongoose

I only use purified bcause I can't stomache the taste of tap water. We had to get a purifier so I would drink the water. I kept ending up sick from not drinking water. Just the smell of tap water turns my stomache. The purifier helps. I always liked well water, even though I'm sure it is loaded with crap. But now we live in town and YUCK! Must be the chlorine.

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I use the tap water in town, but I'm glad we have a water softner.

At one point I was going to use only carbon filtered water, but the amount of time it took to fill up a gallon of water was wayyyy to long. If I had amphibians I'd be using something else for my water supply...or be picker about it.

I have no problem using city water, I think it would do just fine .. BUT, since we have a water purifier on the tap, I use it because it makes me feel a little better knowing that the water is going to be no issue at all.