Tap water VS. Bottled/purified water

Tap or bottled/purified? Does it matter? I'll withhold my personal opinion for now...

If your tap water is safe for you, it's safe for your snake.

Tap water for the snakes, distilled for the humidifier.

THANK YOU!! I totally agree. Tap water is fine. I know so many people with snakes/reptiles that say bottled or purified is the ONLY water fit for them. I say this is a big waste of money. If I'm fine with the water coming out of my faucet, my snake should be too! :)

When feeding people will question a little substrate ingestion and possible negative effects. Most say in the wild it's bound to happen. I wonder what quality the water their exposed to is like in the wild? I usally give fresh tap every three days.

I live in Scotland and we have nice, soft, water.

I've been using tap water for over 20 years with some of my snakes and they are fine. :D

Tap here as well.

I have a water purifier that removes the heavy chlorine from my drinking water. They have used so much Chlorine that a glass of water can make your eyes water at times.
I give mine both for drinking/bathing and misting for humidity purified water because I have plenty and store it in the fridge.

It depends on where you live. Where I live, the water is okay to drink, but the next town over has had a decent amount of mercury in their tap water for years and it's been suggested that you don't drink it. My snake gets plain old tap water, and her bowl gets cleaned every few days to a week. If I had a humidifier, I would use distilled water, only because if you don't it voids the warranty, but since I do it by hand, I use regular tap water for humidity as well.

I use tap water too, the quality of the water is good here so it's really just a a waste of money. I do use distilled in the humidifier and bottled water for the PDF's as they are really sensitive to stuff in the water.

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Originally Posted by MontyAndMelissa

It depends on where you live. Where I live, the water is okay to drink, but the next town over has had a decent amount of mercury in their tap water for years and it's been suggested that you don't drink it. My snake gets plain old tap water, and her bowl gets cleaned every few days to a week. If I had a humidifier, I would use distilled water, only because if you don't it voids the warranty, but since I do it by hand, I use regular tap water for humidity as well.

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Originally Posted by Boomerang

I have a water purifier that removes the heavy chlorine from my drinking water. They have used so much Chlorine that a glass of water can make your eyes water at times.
I give mine both for drinking/bathing and misting for humidity purified water because I have plenty and store it in the fridge.

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I have to agree with these two. Totally depends on where you live. I can't stand the taste of our tap water. If you fill a gallon jug of our tap water the smell is just gross. We buy gallons of distilled water and I want to start giving it to the snakes too just because it's hard for me to even swallow our tap lol.

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Originally Posted by AlexisFitzy

We buy gallons of distilled water and I want to start giving it to the snakes too just because it's hard for me to even swallow our tap lol.

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Distilled water is bad for your bad snakes. It lacks the minerals, salts, and other extras they need.

I have a chlorine filter, brings the ppm from 580 to 90. I didn't buy the r/o filter this time so it's 1 step below it. That's what my family drinks + all the pets in our house.

But tap is fine. If the city your in deems your municipal water safe to drink, then it's safe for your snakes.

The only thing I would worry is if you had well water with poor or no filtration.

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I use tap water from my dads house. My city tap water lately has been really hard and it makes the bowls harder to clean and they need to be done more often if I use city water.

I don't think you can make a blanket statement, water quality varies greatly, this same argument exists with bottled water. It is better for you if the tap water is of a poor quality. All things equil it is a waste of money but if you get sick from drinking the tap water it is super cheap. There are water borne things you don't want to get. Giardia for example, in the town where my dad lives they had it in the water supply, I would pay 10$ a bottle for water, not to get it again! :tears:

My snake gets the same as me - tap water through a Brita filter.
http://brita.ca/water-filtration-process/