Something Interesting For Boa Owners.

[ThyTempest]

Please do not BUY water. It is environmentally UNsafe and causes harm to the environment in many ways. The production of making plastic is harmful to the environment and the process of recycling plastic is only 40-60%.

If your water has hard minerals in it, for whatever reasons, please do your homework and buy the best house water filter you can get (general upkeep cost of about 6-8 bucks a month maximum) and replace your water filter more often. Then you can buy one of those tap water purifiers too to also reduce the amount of minerals in your house water.

I can guarantee that the "big breeders" do NOT use bottled water on their snakes. Many of them I know just use intense filtration devices, like the ones I stated above but on a much larger scale.

A good thing to know about bottled water- their isn't any regulations for them to follow; whereas, city water has to be tested and regulated on a daily basis for any contaminants and the public notified immediately of any oddities.

As for the chlorine issue with city water- I fill 5 gallon buckets with water and let it sit for a day with an open lid before I use it. This is allows any chlorine to evaporate and dissipate so as not to harm my snakes.

Hope this helps.

Letting the water sit is a good idea, but if it doesnt get any sunlight, or extreme heat, it wont make the water any better/safer for your reptiles. As for the filtration systems, that does seem like a much better/more efficient method to de-mineralize the water.

As for the plastic waste, I know my local exotic pet store offers a discount for reusing containers, as well as a bulk discount for something like 10+ gallons at a time. I know some people use big 10 and 20 gallon "Culligan" bottles and 5 gallon buckets. Buckets are nice because they can be left in the sun with enough surface area to do some good, whereas the bottlenecked containers like Culligan bottles are pretty much useless for sun-safing water since the plastic absorbs most of the UV light.