Tap water once in a while....good or bad? - Page 2

Mikoh4792 · 11-01-13, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by poison123

Frogs breath through their skin. All the chlorine and other stuff in tap water blocks off the oxygen.

ah forgot about that. Makes sense.

shaunyboy · 11-01-13, 12:35 PM

imo it all depends on the quality of your tap water mate

imo if its good enough for you to drink then its good enough for a snake,all mine are on tap water and ive had no issues

if i need to bathe a snake i do it with tap water

cheers shaun

LadyWraith · 11-01-13, 01:02 PM

Also, it could be (this is just speculation from my own common knowledge) that by drinking, all the crap in tap water is filtered out by the bodies onboard waste management system. Wheres with amphibians, the filtration is different and harmful contaminants are more freely dispersed in the body? Not sure on the accuracy of that.

MDT · 11-01-13, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by poison123

Frogs breath through their skin. All the chlorine and other stuff in tap water blocks off the oxygen.

Not trying to be a DB (seriously)...can you give the physiology behind this? I'm not aware of Chlorine interacting with hemoglobin to interfere with O2 binding...

I'm really asking, bc if it is legit, I would like to be educated,

Hannibalcanibal · 11-01-13, 01:21 PM

Chlorine burns. And it burns bad. You can dissolve ants and leaves in it, and we use bleach to kill off microbes.

All i know is, breathing it kills people (think ww1), and breathing it also kills fish. But drinking a dilute amount of it does not hurt us, or evidently the snakes. I can see phibs having the same problem as fish, though- no way to urinate it out, and there is no way to push it out through the skin because it will just absorb more through the contaminated water it's sitting in.

Just speculation, though. if anyone has a better idea, let me know

mistersprinkles · 11-01-13, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by knox

Tap for the last 20 years. Yes, all the water in your house comes from the same place.

Fish and Amphibians are the only ones you need to worry about. And remember, Chlorine evaporates pretty quickly out of the water - so relax and enjoy the simplicity of that indoor plumbing :-)

Chloramine doesn't evaporate particularly quickly at all though. Some municipalities use chlorine, others use chloramine, which is a combination of ammonia and chlorine. The ammonia "locks up" the chlorine so that it is more difficult for the chlorine to leave the water. I'm not saying that the low dose of chlorine is going to hurt the snake, but if you're on a chloramine water system, the snake is likley going to ingest some chlorine.

I don't know anything about chlorine affecting amphibians, but I do know that there are dechlorinators on the market which work the same way as (fish) aquarium dechlorinators, and are marketed for use with amphibians.

prairiepanda · 11-02-13, 01:26 PM

I'll give my animals(other than amphibians/fish) any water that I'd be willing to drink. Generally I'm fine with the tap water where I live. The water at my university, however is a different story. They have their own reservoir, and I have no idea why because it would probably be much better to share with the city. This is why the school has expensive machines all over the place where you can fill your water bottles with CLEAN water:

mistersprinkles · 11-02-13, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by prairiepanda

I'll give my animals(other than amphibians/fish) any water that I'd be willing to drink. Generally I'm fine with the tap water where I live. The water at my university, however is a different story. They have their own reservoir, and I have no idea why because it would probably be much better to share with the city. This is why the school has expensive machines all over the place where you can fill your water bottles with CLEAN water:

That looks like a nice, dark lager coming out of that faucet.

Zoo Nanny · 11-02-13, 01:36 PM

or urine!

lisas · 11-02-13, 01:52 PM

My corn drank tap for 5 years and she's fine. I bought distilled water for the lizard / snake now because I heard that you should. To me, my well water, even though it's a little hard (iron), seems healthier that water from a plastic bottle. I think I'll go back to my well water. I have hundreds of acres of woods around me so the water is clean.

Zoo Nanny · 11-02-13, 02:47 PM

Distilled water shouldn't be used consumption. You are better off with spring water or filtered tap water. Distilled water has no minerals.

lisas · 11-02-13, 04:01 PM

I'll just filter the tap water then. Actually, it's filtered in the basement anyhow so I'll just doublecheck / change that filter if it's needed.

mistersprinkles · 11-02-13, 07:03 PM

Ya don't do distilled water. No minerals. Just use water that you know is potable for humans and it should be fine. If it's for amphibians, consider dechlorination seriously. JM2C.