What kind of water do you use?

[Mina]

We were wondering. We use RO water for all of the tarantulas and the snakes, but we buy it at the store and haul it home and are forever running out of it. I wanted to know what kind of water does everyone on the boards use for their herps. Untreated tap water? Treated tap water (if so with what)? Bottled water? We were thinking about maybe getting one of those filters that you can attach to your faucet. Opinions, ideas, anyone?

[J.Vandegrift]

Plain old water from the well for me. If it's good enough for me to drink I figure it's good enough for the snakes.

[AkivaSmith]

I have a small filter that fits on the end of the faucet. I filter the water into a plastic bottle, then let it sit for a few hours to get to room temp before I give it to my snake.

[daniel1983]

Plain old water from the well for me. If it's good enough for me to drink I figure it's good enough for the snakes.

Same here.....it hasn't killed me yet so it can't be that bad

Water out of the faucet is just fine. No need to treat the water anymore than it has been treated at your local water treatment faculity.

[JLC]

Just plain ol' tap water here.

[djslurp1200]

I have a friend that bought a normal from me and buys it cases of bottled water...changing the water out every day or two...lol I wouldn't necessarily take it to that extreme but it feels good knowing that he's taking good care of the animal for me.

Tap water is all i've used and never had any problems. As long as the water doesn't get dirty in the tank and it's changed out regularly its fine.

[cris78]

I have the Brita attachment to my faucet..so I use that

[lillyorchid]

Just plain old tap water from our faucet.

[Sadie]

I buy RO water too- cheap, $2 for 11L, drink it myself. Wouldn't the chlorine in tap water hurt the snakes?

[kplunk]

I don't know much about the subject of water for herps. But in my Environmental analysis class I learned that in Canada at least unsure on the states but there is no regulations on bottled water. That said do I think bottled water is bad for you? no I drink it all the time. But there is still no regulations on it to make it better. The only reason a bottled water company would care would be to obviously not make you sick so you continue to buy there product. Now you look at tap water and tap water has loads of regulations on it. But they don't necesarrily always fall into these regulations and can still be harmful to you. The city I'm from Winnipeg Mb, Canada. its tap water isn't the greatest almost everything that is regulated as far as tap water goes the limits on it are above the standards set. The city is working on a new water treatment facility to improve this but it won't be done for a couple of years.
Those brita filters generally only aid on taste and clarity they don't filter out harmful contaminants if they exist.

So all that said what is a person supposed to do?

I have no clue just thought I'd throw my in