Do you give your snakes tap water?

I have been removing the chlorine from the water before giving to all my snakes. Am I doing to much work or is it needed?

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Originally Posted by Skyrivers

I have been removing the chlorine from the water before giving to all my snakes. Am I doing to much work or is it needed?

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I used to purchase purified water and only give that to my animals. Then I heard from some huge breeders that tap water is safe as long as your water isn't contaminated or anything. So I have been using tap ever since.

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I'm a tap-water only keeper too...I think it would make the most difference for tiny snakes, newly hatched or neonates, anyway.

Tap water for the critters. The chlorine offgasses fairly quickly anyway.

The fish get filtered unchlorinated water.

I would use plain tap water, but my local water plants uses chloramine instead of chlorine. Chloramine takes weeks to evaporate, if it does at all. I use ReptiSafe, which removes both chlorine and chloramine. It's possibly overkill, and chloramine may do nothing to reptiles, but I'd rather not take my chances. Before that I used bottled water, which I buy anyways for myself.

Plus by itself the tap water tastes nasty. Don't know if ReptiSafe makes it taste any better, haven't exactly tried it lmao.

if it is safe for you to drink, it is safe for the snakes. :gj:

the only water to avoid is distilled water, which has the minerals stripped from it.

I only use tap water in the UK and all been fine

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Tap water here too. All the animals in my house drink tap water, including me.

At my old place I used tap water that I ran through a britta filter pitcher (same as I drank) and here at the new place, I use the filtered water from the fridge.
Tap water should be fine as it is.
I use distilled water when misting and in my humidifiers to avoid the buildup.
if you are still worried about chlorine, just let the water sit out for 24 hrs and it'll offgas.

I use filtered water from the fridge.

I use tap water treated with Reptisafe. I like that it removes chlorine, chloramine, prevents ammonia build-up and adds electrolytes.

Your snakes would probably survive without it but it only costs a couple bucks and a bottle lasts a long long time. So it's a no brainer for me.



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I buy the bulk jugs of spring water and use those for my two snakes. I figure, it's been working so far, no reason to switch to tap. Me, I'd drink out of a garden hose, so my snakes technically living at a higher standard than me.

I drink tap water and don’t have any issues so same goes for my snake

I used tap water for years and years and years with my snakes and neither my snakes or I have grown a 3rd eye so its fine by me.

I use just tap water, thought about using Reptisafe, even have a bottle. Seems like over kill. Like the others said, right out of the faucet.

Tap water for anything over 100G, or a mix of 70/30 tap to purified.

For tiny babies, like very young corn snakes and other colubrids, I use purified water.

The amount of chlorine is potentially harmful to an 8G corn snake, but harmless to a 2 pound BP, for example.

LOL. So I have been a little over kill protecting my babies. Is good to know that I can let Rainbow drink tap water. That saves me a lot of work.

All my pets drink tap water. Think about it this way: water in the wild is not clean. There are parasites, bacteria, dead animals and feces in standing water or ponds which they would normally come across for a drink. If we can drink our tap water for decades without health issues, I think our snakes will be fine.

I reptisafe my water, but they put so much chlorine in the water here that it smells like a swimming pool, so I think it's probably not a bad idea to use it.

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Originally Posted by Alter-Echo

I reptisafe my water, but they put so much chlorine in the water here that it smells like a swimming pool, so I think it's probably not a bad idea to use it.

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That's why I always say there's exceptions to every rule. If I could smell chlorine in my water none of my pets would drink it, and neither would I.

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Originally Posted by Cheesenugget

All my pets drink tap water. Think about it this way: water in the wild is not clean. There are parasites, bacteria, dead animals and feces in standing water or ponds which they would normally come across for a drink. If we can drink our tap water for decades without health issues, I think our snakes will be fine.

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I drink bottle water. LOL

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Originally Posted by Cheesenugget

All my pets drink tap water. Think about it this way: water in the wild is not clean. There are parasites, bacteria, dead animals and feces in standing water or ponds which they would normally come across for a drink. If we can drink our tap water for decades without health issues, I think our snakes will be fine.

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Animals in the wild don't live as long as we want our pets to either. When they don't feel well, they slow down & predators put them out of their misery. But I do think
that in the wild, many build up a little more tolerance to all the usual contamination...and who knows, maybe the sunshine (or other factors?) also does more for them
than we currently understand, in terms of health & resistance. Few things in nature can make killer chemicals like we can...chlorine is one of them...so if it was very
noticeable in my tap I'd avoid giving it to my snakes too. Happily that's not been the case.

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Originally Posted by craigafrechette

That's why I always say there's exceptions to every rule. If I could smell chlorine in my water none of my pets would drink it, and neither would I.

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Yeah, I personally won't touch the stuff unless it's sat over night, and even then the mineral content is so darn high i try to stick with bottled water, last thing i need are kidney stones. Lol

Is distilled water safe to use when misting? A lot of systems and humidifiers recommend it, but I think about snakes like GTPs that might prefer to drink droplets of sprayed distilled water over water from a bowl...How do people handle this?

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Originally Posted by Tila

Is distilled water safe to use when misting? A lot of systems and humidifiers recommend it, but I think about snakes like GTPs that might prefer to drink droplets of sprayed distilled water over water from a bowl...How do people handle this?

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i do not use distilled water when misting my crested gecko for the same reason: they drink the droplets. yeah it's harder to clean but, eh.

The main issue with distilled is that because it lacks minerals of any kind, it can throw off an animals internal electrolyte balance. I would think that things like geckos that have vitamins in their food would be less likely to have this happen though.

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Originally Posted by Tila

Is distilled water safe to use when misting? A lot of systems and humidifiers recommend it, but I think about snakes like GTPs that might prefer to drink droplets of sprayed distilled water over water from a bowl...How do people handle this?

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You don't want your snakes drinking ONLY distilled water, but it's better for misting because it doesn't leave hard water stains everywhere. I don't think you need to
worry about a snake that drinks SOME distilled water, as long as that's not ALL they drink? That's a great question...for snakes that mostly drink droplets, if that was
my situation I'd probably alternate them. I think you should start a specific thread for this...I don't keep any snakes this applies to & like you, I wonder what other
keepers (of GTPs etc) are doing? They might not find your question so easily buried in this thread?

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Originally Posted by Tila

Is distilled water safe to use when misting? A lot of systems and humidifiers recommend it, but I think about snakes like GTPs that might prefer to drink droplets of sprayed distilled water over water from a bowl...How do people handle this?

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Originally Posted by Bogertophis

You don't want your snakes drinking ONLY distilled water, but it's better for misting because it doesn't leave hard water stains everywhere. I don't think you need to worry about a snake that drinks SOME distilled water, as long as that's not ALL they drink? That's a great question...for snakes that mostly drink droplets, if that was my situation I'd probably alternate them. I think you should start a specific thread for this...I don't keep any snakes this applies to & like you, I wonder what other keepers (of GTPs etc) are doing? They might not find your question so easily buried in this thread?

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with snakes like GTP, you can wet their food to ensure they're getting good hydration with every meal. snakes also absorb water through their skin; i don't think crested geckos absorb water through their skin.

this is a really good questions definitely deserving of its own thread, OP.

EDIT: i wonder what @Sauzo thinks :)

Thanks for the consideration and replies, that's a good idea to pose this again later as I'm entertaining the idea of an arboreal, most likely a GTP in the future.

The water where I live is kinda on and off. Somedays it's fine and some days I don't even like to drink it because it tastes like dirt. I use reptisafe just to be safe. Cheap and lasts a long time, works for me :gj:

Tap water.

I read that if its ok for you to drink its good enough for them.

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Originally Posted by Skyrivers

I have been removing the chlorine from the water before giving to all my snakes. Am I doing to much work or is it needed?

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As many others started with bottled water but now either tap set out or reptisafe just in case..

Reptisafe turns my water blue over time and that bothers me. Left out tap water or tap water with some asorbic acid (vitamin c) to let the chlorine and chloramine dissipate.


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