Water topic!

In another forum the interesting topic came up of what kind of water to use with herps, or more specifically--boas. I want to fine tune the statement and run a poll here. ALL HERPS and what kind of water you use. Please post what you keep and what type of water you use for their drinking water. Any other info on this topic would be great. It won't be a bad idea to give an estimate of how many of each kind of herp you keep too.

I'll start- I use tested well water for over 200 boas, but I'm moving to an area that has city water...thus the curiousity.

I only have 5 ball pythons and the city tap water is good enough for me then its good enough for all my animals.

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Originally Posted by Broseph

I only have 5 ball pythons and the city tap water is good enough for me then its good enough for all my animals.

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Ditto:8:

I hear you, but a valid point was made on the "chlorine" levels having an impact on herps. I can understand a good dose of chlorinated water having a bad effect on smaller herps, like geckos.

there was a piece on the news here in cleveland last year after the ceo of fuji water made some remarks about the citys water on the bottles, the city had indepented test done on the fuji companies water and the cleveland city water done and it came back that the city water tested better in arsnic(sp?) chlorine and a few other categories. i feel comfortable using it.

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Originally Posted by jim020cricket

I hear you, but a valid point was made on the "chlorine" levels having an impact on herps. I can understand a good dose of chlorinated water having a bad effect on smaller herps, like geckos.

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I use city water here and at the zoo we use city water as well for the entire collection.

ive been using bottled water for my snakes, for the fact I was nervous about the chlorine levels harming them. After reading these posts I think im going to switch to the tap.

Tap water works for me and my animals... 2 BPs, a beardie, a cat, and a dog... The only animal I treat the water for is the fish...

6 Bps and 1 Cat - I use the tap water for both and all are healthy.

I use city water for all my snakes, rodents, and cats. No problems at all

You can always fill up a large jug with city water, and leave it open to the air over night. The chlorine will evaporate away.

I love city water, I think it tastes oh so good. :)

I read this, and my entire view on bottled water has changed. Bottled water: What a waste of space.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...ey.aspx?page=1

I change my vote To purified water. I pressed the wrong one.

I dont like bottled water, I only drink from tap. So that's what my snakes get!

I use R.O. water since that's what I use for myself and all my other critters.

I use purified water for my fish, frogs, toads, lizard, torts, snakes and birds.

Most people discussing tap water have little understanding of the EPA regulations concerning the production of drinking water. Bottle water actually has fewer standards governing it's quality due to the fact that bottled water is governed by the FDA. Also, most faculities in the US now have declorination procedures as per the EPA regulations. I believe the maximum clorine levels in drinking water were almost cut in half a few years ago after research proved that concentrations over a certain level increase risk of cancer in humans. Alot of newer faculities (and retrofitted older faculities) are going to UV sterilization these days. Interesting stuff.

Most of your 'purified' water is just tap water that has been run through a few more mineral reducers to get rid of taste. Nothing special.

Funny thing about tap water is that the majority of the contaminants come from the system after it is processed (i.e. soil/groundwater infiltration into broken pipes or you don't clean the green slime out of the inside of your faucets (yep, it is in just about every one ;)))

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 :)

same here we use regular tap water, i put a drop or two of the reptisafe water conditioner in it.

Holy hell I was just thinking of doing this today!!!! LOL Not even joking!

I use tap water for the snakes and rodents but I add ReptiSafe conditioner to the snake water (gallon jug) since I can get it cheap. The rodents just get straight tap... but we drink bottled because I get sick if I drink straight tap water. Not sure why...I just have a sensitive system. :)

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.

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.