water?

[dudeofrude]

Is it ok to put bottled spring it mineral water in a fish tank?

 

[dudeofrude]

Is it ok to put bottled spring it mineral water in a fish tank?

Spring OR mineral

 

[dkpate]

Why?

 

[DreD]

He probably wants to fill his tank with unnecessary additions to the water.

 

[dudeofrude]

It was just a thought coz my tap water is quite hard and has a bit or chlorine in it. Just wondered it bottled water was safe to put in without having to use a dechlorinator?

 

[uscamaro]

I have extremely hard water and it's fine, just use the dechlorinator. Do you realize how expensive using bottled water would get?

 

[DreD]

Some LFS sell water that you can fill your tank with. I have no clue about mineral water, but spring water should be fine-spring water eventually come from a tap just make sure to cycle the water before looting fish in

 

[dudeofrude]

I'll just stick to treated tap water then, was just curious if the bottled stuff woulda been better. Thanks for the info

 

[uscamaro]

If you're concerned about your tap water, and you want the best, get an RO/DI unit on Ebay for ~$100. That'll give you the most pure water, yet it's not necessary for FW... tap + dechlorinator is fine.

 

[dkpate]

+1, just use dechlor. Bottled water doesn't have the essential minerals that the fish need, and who knows what leeches out of the plastic. Yuck.

 

[Shrimp fan]

Some LFS sell RO water over here in Scotland. But I dunno about the states. But as uscamaro said best by a RO unit it will work out cheaper in the long run.

 

[dkpate]

Just pull it out of the tap and use dechlor, that way you can temperature match too.

Shrimp, I am jealous that you live in Scotland, just thought I would throw that in there.