ReptiSafe or not??

[Amy1217]

I have a pitcher that has a filtered top, so you pour the water in the top, and it comes out on the bottom filtered, it is what i drink, and what i use for my dog and my snakes. The only one in the family that gets hose water is my horse. But, where i am, there is a lot of sulfur in the water, and it always tasts funny. I hate it, i don't want anyone else to have to drink it either.

[arcane]

Tap water here. As our water is just fine. I have declorinator in the house from using it in aquariums, but meh.

Now if I lived someplace where the water is just on this side of drinkable, like at my mothers house, where it often is not, it would be bottled.

[johnsgirl128]

I have a betta that I have to use distilled so I buy it in gallon jugs and my snakes get the same, I have used tap as well it just depends on what i have on hand, 85% of the time its distilled though

[anikamw]

i use it also because i already have it. it doesn't hurt anything for sure, and the price isn't much for as long as it lasts. my opinion anyway.

[NightLad]

I only drink bottled water, and so does Salzedo.

Has anybody tried using distilled water you buy from supermarkets in jugs? That should have zero chemicals or minerals.

[sweety314]

I have a betta that I have to use distilled so I buy it in gallon jugs and my snakes get the same, I have used tap as well it just depends on what i have on hand, 85% of the time its distilled though

Yeah, an old thread, but for newbies----something to think on....


Distilled water isn't all that great for pets. The minerals and salts have been removed...thus the "distilled" and could potentially cause kidney / bladder problems.

If you search my reply, I use it, b/c I had a bottle of it, but now that it's gone, I'm not going out of my way to buy another...however, I have moved from the town water system to a well, and my well water is extremely heavy in both sulfur AND iron....and the house's water is treated by a brine water softener system with the specialized salt for iron. Rats and snakes get it out of the faucet, horses get the non-softened water.

[Monty]

i drink tap water my snakes drnink tap water my ferret and bird drink tap water only thing i let the water sit and dechlorinate for are my fire belly toads. other then that its just straight tap water