water question

is it ok to give your snake filtered water from a water purifier? i have one next to my sink and ran out of bottles and i was wondering if its ok. could i just do that instead?

I give mine regular tap water. I would think as long as you can drink the water it would not hurt them.

I use to treat my snakes' water with repti-safe, but I've switched to tap and everything is fine.

ok. i was just checking. i figured you could. better safe than sorry :D

thanks for the help

I did the bottled water for a while, then filtered and now I just give them the tap water. There has been no difference since I changed them over.

I tried the bottled water thing too. It gets expensive when your collection gets big. I now use tap water too. The only problem I have with it is my water is well water. It is such hard water with so much lyme that if a snake soaks in it, the snake comes out with chalky stuff on its body lol.

I find I dont have this problem as bad if I rinse the bowls and refill them every couple days.

I use tap water and change it daily. I've never heard of people saying something besides tap water is a must.

We do tap water, too. Every now and then they get bottled water if there's an unopened one sitting around (which is rare because I devour them). And we use the Repti water purifying stuff, but honestly once the bottle is gone I doubt we're going to buy more. They drank the water just fine without it.

If you were to consider what the alternative in the wild for water sources are; tap water is a VAST improvement.

If your nose tells ya theres chlorine in it, you can jug it for a day or two until it dissipates and your good to go..:salute:

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Originally Posted by mykee

If you were to consider what the alternative in the wild for water sources are; tap water is a VAST improvement.

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That's exactly what I was thinking. My city tap water has to be better than the water in the Amazon basin.... I hope.... :rofl:

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Originally Posted by Vypyrz

That's exactly what I was thinking. My city tap water has to be better than the water in the Amazon basin.... I hope.... :rofl:

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BP's come from Africa not south America.

i was planning on using the repti safe water conditioner too. i dont know, i'll talk to the breeder today & ask him what he does.

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Originally Posted by jason79

BP's come from Africa not south America.

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Sorry I wasn't clear on that comment. At the moment I only have boas...

I stopped filtered water for my self years ago cause they filter the minerals out too. People as well as snakes need natural minerals. You can actually die if you don't maintain them. Like was said you can leave a piture out to dissapate the chlorine....But then once you put it in the bowl it does the same thing. I'm sure your snake doesn't jump right in the minute you give them fresh water.........If they do your a Baaaad owner! :colbert:

Um...you are certainly not a bad keeper if your snake happens to like fresh water. I find that on occasion when I change water every morning, my snakes will come get the fresh water right after I put it in the bowl. Some do it, some don't. Maybe they prefer the fresher, cooler water as to water that has been sitting in the tub all night, getting warm. Who knows, but it certainly does not make someone a bad keeper. My corn snakes are notorious for this!

As for what I use, I would love to use filtered water, but I just use tap water for convenience and it is cheaper. We have a water filter we could use, but we would be replacing it far too often with as often as I change out water for all my animal kids.