Water Importance

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

my snakes get tap water straight from the sink... it IS well water though... so it's not chlorinated, or fluoridated... or anything like that!! It's great water actually, I can actually take our water and put fish (i keep fish) straight into it. Actually when I bring the feeder guppies home from the store, I bring them in a bucket of their fish tank water. If i leave the guppies in that over half will die (went through this at least a dozen times) but if I put them in MY water they thrive!!! So if it's perking up my guppies I figure, it can't hurt my snakes


water that is bottled in plastics is a lot worse than many think it is. The plastics release toxins, and many sources of bottled water are just straight tap water put into a bottle. You have to read labels carefully, for clues like "obtained from a public water source".

[ConcinusMan]

my snakes get tap water straight from the sink... it IS well water though... so it's not chlorinated, or fluoridated... or anything like that!! It's great water actually, I can actually take our water and put fish (i keep fish) straight into it. Actually when I bring the feeder guppies home from the store, I bring them in a bucket of their fish tank water. If i leave the guppies in that over half will die (went through this at least a dozen times) but if I put them in MY water they thrive!!! So if it's perking up my guppies I figure, it can't hurt my snakes


water that is bottled in plastics is a lot worse than many think it is. The plastics release toxins, and many sources of bottled water are just straight tap water put into a bottle. You have to read labels carefully, for clues like "obtained from a public water source".

That's why I suggested spring water or distilled. Other bottled water from municiple sources has been dechlorinated at least. And always check the expiration. It takes time for the plastic to foul the water. Anyway, there's nothing added to my tap water besides chlorine gas to sanitize it. Chlorine gas dissipates pretty fast once it's placed in an open container. I don't know about guppies, but goldfish survive in my tap water once it's allowed to "air out" for a day. More than half will survive anyway, straight out of the tap. But heck, if you live outside of a big city, or otherwise do not have much in the way of air pollution, there's probably nothing wrong with collecting rain water/snow and using that.