steviejcsc
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My tap water is too hard to use, distilled is bad??
New pro mist system!!!!
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GoFast
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Distilled isn't bad...it's just not good.
Regular tap water is loaded with nutrients, chemicals, and minerals. Some of those are good and others, not so good.
Distilled is completely void of any of that so your cham isn't getting any of the good stuff now. On the other hand, he isn't getting any of the bad stuff.
It's really a damned if you do; damned if you don't situation.
Regular tap water is loaded with nutrients, chemicals, and minerals. Some of those are good and others, not so good.
Distilled is completely void of any of that so your cham isn't getting any of the good stuff now. On the other hand, he isn't getting any of the bad stuff.
It's really a damned if you do; damned if you don't situation.
steviejcsc
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Should I buy and use big jugs of spring water? Like I said my water is VER HARD here!!! It ruins everything it touches...
summoner12
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It's more like 'you're not damned if you do and damned if you don't supplement properly'.
I have been using my RO system for almost one year and had zero health issues from what I can tell. If you supplement your cham's food with calcium and vitamins you should have zero issue. And, it isn't like you have to add any supplements, just the normal routine.
I have been using my RO system for almost one year and had zero health issues from what I can tell. If you supplement your cham's food with calcium and vitamins you should have zero issue. And, it isn't like you have to add any supplements, just the normal routine.
GoFast
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summoner12
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EXACTLY.....
And you sure like showing that RO system off don't you?
I've been playing with it a lot lately... and it looks confusing.
ChamOh
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Do you guys drink distilled water? Spring or filtered tap water contains a host of nutrients. The only thing I use distilled water for is flushing the radiator of my car, but that's just me. IMO, and it's JMO, distilled would make your misting system run with less worry about mineral deposits etc, but it may be a healthier choice for your cham to get real water.
GoFast
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I don't drink distilled water but I would. There is no need to think of distilled water as some kind of poisonous cleaning agent.
In your car, it is a waste to clean your radiator with distilled water. What you should do, is run distilled water at all times with a mix of antifreeze.
Distilled water is just as real as non-distilled. You may actually be able to argue that it is even more real since it is more H2o and less everything else.
Like summoner said, proper supplementation and gut loading are the best way to give the necessary nutrients.
chamelisa
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I've been playing with it a lot lately... and it looks confusing.
It just shows people how nuts you really are. lol All those wires are too scary.
Just a thought for the question above, trace minerals can be added to distilled or RO water when giving water by dropper or dripper. It's sold at the health food store.
http://www.sourcenaturals.com/products/GP1087/
This is if you're REALLY worried about what your chameleons are NOT getting. Then again, supplementing with a high quality mineral dust and gutloading your feeders should be enough.
ChamOh
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Well this isn't the appropriate forum to get too in depth about car maintenance, but I can assure you that flushing a car's radiator with distilled water (when doing a radiator flush) is not a waste. This goes on the same logic that people want to use distilled with there chams in the first place to prevent their mist system from getting deposits and work better, longer. Same thing for car.
I never said distilled water was like some "poisionous cleaning agent" but rather I said it's void of any good nutrients for living things. This makes distilled great for cleaning/use in machines, and not as good (than say spring water) for animal consumption in my humble opinion. But if we have anecdotal evidence that people are using distilled and no ill effects, than don't let me stop you from coming to your own conclusions (that was never my intent in the first place).
it's a matter of semantics, but I wouldn't say distilled is more "real" than tap water. Do animals drink anything close to distilled water in nature? More pure perhaps, but real, IDK.
I was just giving my opinion that distilled isn't the best choice since the OP asked for advice. Obviously, do what you feel is best. GL.
chams1
Member
EXACTLY.....
And you sure like showing that RO system off don't you?
Oh, come on now. If I built something like that, I'd be showing it off (a million times...) too.
(Kevin, next time you come home to visit, I expect you to swing by my house to build me some cool stuff like that, too....)I simply use tap water but keep several gallons available at all times that have been treated with Reptisafe and I've never had an issue. But I also supplement and gutload properly, too.
summoner12
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GoFast
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I'll agree that this isn't the place to discuss automotive mechanics and that you never said it was a poisonous chemical. What you did do though, at least this is how I saw it, is imply it was by saying the only thing you would use distilled water for is cleaning out your car's radiator.
My simple point is that there is no harm in using distilled water assuming that the chameleon is properly supplemented in the first place.
There are obviously more ways than one to skin a cat.
I think the thing that is most effected by this choice of distilled or not, is the misting system.
GoFast
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Oh, come on now. If I built something like that, I'd be showing it off (a million times...) too.
Don't pretend Julie...you know you have the craziest misting set-up of them all!
ChamOh
Established Member
Chlorine. Floremines and floride are great for chamd
True summoner. But are chlorine levels not easily taken care of by letting tap water sit out? And fluoride can easily be removed by filtering the water i believe (or using spring, which wouldn't have fluoride in the first place), and you would still get the "good things" that natural water provides, right?
chams1
Member
I know.
Which is exactly why I need Kevin (or you - feel free to come by in his absence...) to come over and build me something fancy like what you guys have. 
