Making water safe

[TerrorFox]

Does anyone have a cheap and effective way of purifying water? im just curious what everyone else does.

[Bartman]

You could boil it and use a piece of tin foil to collect the steam. Then it will run down the tin foil in droplets and you need to collect them with a cup or something. Or you could buy spring water, but its not really necessary from what I understand. I remember reading a post about people saying how it takes out the nutrients or minerals or something in the water that makes it useless.

Where I work we use de-osmosis water, ors omething to that lol, and they only use it in the sprayers, but not for the water dishes.

Someone will be more help :p

[TerrorFox]

I have access to a distiller I think I'll use that..

[HetForHuman]

Whats wrong with using tap water?

Thats all i use for me and my herps and we are all fine ;)

[latazyo]

I remind you that distilled or deionized water is NOT to be ingested by animals

[thunder]

in my opinion (and that of a lab i used to work at), tap is fine for reptiles, but not for phibs. mammals actually do better with tap water than purified water. but reptiles are ok with either purified or tap. my reptiles and mammals get tap water, my phibs i treat with stress coat.

[TerrorFox]

oh I didnt think tap water would be good because of the chlorine and floride. what the hell? I drink distilled water all the time, its awesome!

[Artemis]

I just smacked a pur filter on my tap, so I guess it helps a little. From what I have read there is a lot of controversy about tap water and animals, but heck, as much as the natural water sources are polluted with waste runoff and pollution from the air, who even knows whats best anymore.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Do a search on this site for "reverse osmosis" and/or "purified water". It'll open your eyes. If you care to have them opened that is........

[Artemis]

Wow Jeff. Eyes wide open here. Guess i should save the pur filter for just us. I use it cause I swear it makes the water taste better, and I hate drinking plain water anyways so the addition of the filter was an incentive for me. 8 glasses a day my behind, though!

So much for giving the snake the fancy water!

Art

[Jeff_Favelle]

Remember, purified water ain't that great for us either. ESPECIALLY people who have low calcium or minerals in their bodies (osteoporosis). We weren't built to drink water that has a higher osmotic potential than our cells. Quite the opposite in fact.

[latazyo]

and don't confuse distilled/deionized with purified/filtered either

[Stockwell]

Man oh man....they drink from mud puddles teaming with bacteria in the wild. Tap water is ambrosia to these critters
Heck why not just use Evian, or say Perierre water.. You could leave it in a crystal glass next to their solar powered, oxygen tank enriched, gold & diamond endowed hide box

[Jeff_Favelle]

LOL!!!

[Tim_Cranwill]

Originally posted by Stockwell
gold & diamond endowed hide box

Actually, I'm doing a large order of these VERY hides from the states. I just know they will make my snakes 3x happier and they will love me even more for it! :D

If anyone wants in on the order, give me a call! ;) :p

[Vanan]

Originally posted by Stockwell
Man oh man....they drink from mud puddles teaming with bacteria in the wild. Tap water is ambrosia to these critters
Heck why not just use Evian, or say Perierre water.. You could leave it in a crystal glass next to their solar powered, oxygen tank enriched, gold & diamond endowed hide box

LMAO! You say it Unkie!!

[corrado]

LOL Roy that one is good i think the tread is close now.

[rwg]

Tap is fine for reptiles but if you're misting glass enclosures you probably want to use distilled to avoid mineral buildup on your glass.

[latazyo]

good point on the glass rwg, but I still think they should provide normal ionized water if it is for ingestion and hydration

deionized water doesn't do much for physiological hydration, but I guess it would help for physical hydration

[Artemis]

Stockwell, quit mocking my snakes digs! He likes his jewel encrusted enclosure! LOL!

So since my water is only filter purified and not distilled, its not AS bad?

Besides, I mostly survive on diet coke and cancer sticks, so i think my water is hardly the issue, at least where my own health is concerned.

and you know what they say about Evian.... if you spell it backwards.... gotta love those hidden messages in your bottled water ;)

Artemis