Quote Originally Posted by blackcrystal22 View Post
What's worse, is that our city water isn't well water anymore, but recently was made into reverse osmosis, and has few hard minerals in it anymore. So it apparently does not take much, but she told me boas can specifically be sensitive to this, where pythons may not be.

I'm switching my KSB and my BCI to distilled only water or water that has had the minerals broken down with a liquid my friend uses (not sure what it is, but I'm going to look it up and ask her about it).
Just a few curious questions if you don't mind.

I'm wondering about that liquid that breaks down minerals, because the only water purifier for reptiles that I know of is ReptiSafe, which dechlorinates the water but does nothing to remove minerals.

The other thing is that I generally think of RO water being purer than distilled. My boyfriend used to have an RO filter when he kept corals, but occasionally when he was in a hurry he'd use distilled from the supermarket. Distilled always came up with algae blooms while RO did not. However city water is purified using a many step process; plus, I don't know what the actual mineral content difference is between RO and distilled.

In your situation I'd immediately think to switch to spring water, not distilled. What made you choose distilled over spring? I know that distilled water makes people sick if we drink too much of it; hopefully it's not the same for snakes? (If the vet told you to do this there's probably some reason for it, or if there is some reason that you know of specifically.)