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View Poll Results: Tap, Bottled, or Both/Other?

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    Tap VS Bottled Water?

    What's your personal preference and why? How many snakes do you have to water?
    Personally, I use both. I'll use a bottle of water sometimes if I'm too lazy to walk to the kitchen to fill the bowl.
    Is one or the other better for the snake? I don't think they need fluoride like we do.
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    Re: Tap VS Bottled Water?

    Depends where you live. If the water is good for you to drink, it's good for your animals too. Don't over think it.
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    Yeah where I live we have some of the cleanest sink water in the world Tastes better than bottled, imho.

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    I drink my tap water so I give it to my snakes...

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    Everyone here drinks the same water, human, dogs, snakes, rats, mice etc.

    As for are many do I water? Anywhere between 55 to 200 snakes depending on the time of the year.

    You can always age your water for 24 hours or filter it using a Brita filter.
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    Re: Tap VS Bottled Water?

    here we don't drink tap water...EVER
    so i give bottles to my bp.

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    I do not use bottled water for anything so I wouldn't think about using it for my snakes. That may be due to the fact that Denver has some of the cleanest water in the country.
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    45 % of bottled water comes straight from the tap.

    To the cautious ones, do you know where you water brand came from?

    I am fortunate to live in area that has good and good tasting water. All of my pets drink what I do.
    The one thing I found that you can count on about Balls is that they are consistent about their inconsistentcy.

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    Re: Tap VS Bottled Water?

    Quote Originally Posted by halfnakedlife View Post
    here we don't drink tap water...EVER
    so i give bottles to my bp.
    Where are you?

    If I ever come to your area to visit I wish to come prepared.
    The one thing I found that you can count on about Balls is that they are consistent about their inconsistentcy.

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    2.0 Common BI Boas, Punch, 2005; Butch, age?
    0.1 Normal Ball Python, Elvira, 2001
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    I dont think what comes out the faucet is worse than what ball pythons would normally drink in the wild.

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