Tap Water V Spring water.

[Sauzo]

Lol, that's like saying "snakes carry a parasite load in the wild so we should expose them to parasites in captivity because it's natural." The parameters in captivity are different to the wild so our care should be adjusted accordingly.

Snakes in captivity are unable to experience a natural balance with parasites and would quickly become overwhelmed by them. In the same breath, wild snakes don't drink chlorinated water from taps.

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True but i have yet to see a case of chlorinated tap water actually affecting a snake adversly. We as humans drink it and have been for years and again, i dont see any adverse effects and i have been drinking it for almost 48 years. People assume snakes are these fragile as glass animals that need pampering. As a person who kept reptiles and amphibian back in the dark ages before all this eco friendly tree hugging era began, there were none of these special things. We kept them in wood cages with heat lamps and rheostats. My first ball python was kept in a 55 gallon tank with a screen lid that i didnt cover at all. Sure he had bad sheds but nothing a soak and run through a wet wash cloth didnt fix. I had him for over 10 years before i had to re home him.

While i agree they done drink tap water in the wild, they drink water that could have far more contaminates in it than a little chlorine. Ever went out to ponds as a kid to catch frogs and water snakes and stuff? I have seen some serious iron stained ponds and ponds with a nice oil slick sheen on them and you know what, i have seen lots of frogs, tadpoles, salamanders and snakes around it too.

Bottom line is these reptile companies will market anything to try and get a buck whether it is needed or not. They are praying that unknowing keepers will fall for these items being 'needed' which in most cases are not. Like shed aid. If you set your snake up correctly, you will never need it. If you have it set up wrong and do need it, guess what, an 80F soak in water and a wash cloth will do more to get the shed off than spraying it with some stuff which is like 90% water and oil or something. Same with the Repti safe stuff. Like i said, i have kept reptiles for over 30 years and never once used anything except tap water and never had an issue. If you want to use the stuff, its your choice and I'm not going to talk down to you for using it. I'm just saying, the stuff isnt needed.

Now chloramine, i have never heard of that but unless the stuff is recent, my snakes have had no issues with it. They all got insatiable appetites, poop, pee, and do snakey things fine and have been for years.

Anyways, i'm not here to debate using it or not. I'm just saying it is not 'needed'. People have been keeping reptiles for at least 80+ years as i believe back in 1941 was the first documented captive boa breeding by some Zoo on the east coast and I'm sure people have been keeping reptiles long before that. That is a LONG time before Reptisafe was even invented but also before chlorine was added to drinking water i bet too. But anyways i know there has to be many years between when chlorine was added to drinking water and Reptisafe was marketed.