Distilled water or regular bottled water?

[highqualityballz]

I use tap water for everything. There are a lot of negatives, but there are also nutrients that are not present in distilled. For fish of course I use start right and pro clear because fish are pretty sensitive to high levels of chlorine. I used to waste my time filtering water and what not, but then thought to myself "What would they be drinking in the wild?". Could be worse.

In my opinion if you don't have overly contaminated, hard water I would just use tap.

actually are water is hard and our water report shows alot of chemicals. we are thinking of getting a filtration system for the whole house. see what happens when everyone is so quick to judge. if are water just had alittle bit of chlorine id use it but our water report shows more chemicals beyond chlorine. I guess ill be know as THAT guy now but i really dont care! you guys would do the same if you were in my shoes.

[highqualityballz]

also how do i get the thread closed?

[PitOnTheProwl]

also how do i get the thread closed?

Thats not how this site works.

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look at your post above the one you say this, see the irony?

I actually had to ask twice.

[highqualityballz]

Thats not how this site works.

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I actually had to ask twice.

i asked all of you the same question 100 times and no one could answer so ill ask again. why do you guys care so much i use bottled water? Does it really bother you that im taking precautions?

[PitOnTheProwl]

i asked all of you the same question 100 times and no one could answer so ill ask again. why do you guys care so much i use bottled water? Does it really bother you that im taking precautions?

And seeing as I am quoted here I will answer yet again.
Doesn't matter that you use bottled water, doesn't make you any better either.
What precautions? Not only do we use tap water for my collection but also my wife's collection. (frogs, toads, lizards, and geckos.)

[highqualityballz]

And seeing as I am quoted here I will answer yet again.
Doesn't matter that you use bottled water, doesn't make you any better either.
What precautions? Not only do we use tap water for my collection but also my wife's collection. (frogs, toads, lizards, and geckos.)

precautions meaning that my towns public water may not be safe after reading the water report. never have i made that im better than any of you nor do i beleive that im better. you yourself said you use purified tap water which we do not have but am planning on adding a purifying system to my house so i dont have to use bottled water forever but for now thats all i have to work with. I wasnt sure why everyone was jumping down my throat it sure seemed that alot of people had a problem with it. Again i DONT beleive im any better than any of you just want the best for my animals and in MY case (cause of hard/contaminated water) is bottled water. also didnt mean it to be directed to just you.

[Eric Alan]

precautions meaning that my towns public water may not be safe after reading the water report. never have i made that im better than any of you nor do i beleive that im better. you yourself said you use purified tap water which we do not have but am planning on adding a purifying system to my house so i dont have to use bottled water forever but for now thats all i have to work with. I wasnt sure why everyone was jumping down my throat it sure seemed that alot of people had a problem with it. Again i DONT beleive im any better than any of you just want the best for my animals and in MY case (cause of hard/contaminated water) is bottled water.

I've been trying really hard to stay out of this, but I have to give my worth after this. Not until the 4th page of this thread did you mention that your source of water may not be safe. If this is in fact the case, then there's not a single one of us here who would continue to provide that water to our animals and of course would find an alternative source until the problem was resolved. If you would have started with that on the 1st page, instead of this...

No offense but I'd never give tap water to any of my animals, not my cat not my snakes unless our water was purified which its not. I'll stick with bottled water. Thanks for the input!

...then this thread would have taken an entirely different direction. You said that you would never give tap water to any of your animals - you did not say that you would never give unsafe tap water to any of your animals. Those are two very different things.

[highqualityballz]

I've been trying really hard to stay out of this, but I have to give my worth after this. Not until the 4th page of this thread did you mention that your source of water may not be safe. If this is in fact the case, then there's not a single one of us here who would continue to provide that water to our animals and of course would find an alternative source until the problem was resolved. If you would have started with that on the 1st page, instead of this...

...then this thread would have taken an entirely different direction. You said that you would never give tap water to any of your animals - you did not say that you would never give unsafe tap water to any of your animals. Those are two very different things.

i definitely agree with you. yea it sounded like is was critizing tap water in general, which is not what i meant sorry for not mentioning this earlier!

[O'Mathghamhna]

I personally use SPRING bottled water. Not distilled/purified/etc. And I put my pinky out when I pour it into their water dishes.

HA, just kidding. For me, I use bottled spring water because regular tap water calcifies the water bowls, which drives me nuts and is hard to clean.

[PitOnTheProwl]

I personally use SPRING bottled water. Not distilled/purified/etc. And I put my pinky out when I pour it into their water dishes.

HA, just kidding. For me, I use bottled spring water because regular tap water calcifies the water bowls, which drives me nuts and is hard to clean.

Vinegar will take it right out. I usually soak my bowls every couple months to remove the calcium buildup.