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DonSoderberg
at Sat Jan 20 16:16:22 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DonSoderberg ]
Some of the posts on this thread are correct. The main deficiency in distilled water is the minerals. Many minerals are too heavy to be retauined in steam. The main thing wrong with distilled water is the lack of minerals. This is NOT a small thing. It's VERY important that neonate snakes get these minerals. Many of these minerals are only tracely represented in immature mice, but adult snakes can get most of their needed minerals in adult mice. Therefore distilled would probably not be bad for adult snakes, but why would you deprive them of beneficial nutrients at all? NO DISTILLED WATER, PLEASE.
As stated, more research has gone into the diet of human babies than that of snakes. Trillions of dollars has been spent to discern best nutrition for humans. Therefore, all essential vitamins and minerals are in the forumlas you mix with distilled water. Therefore, nothing wrong with that for humans since you're supplementing with formula. If you're not mixing snake formulated additives to your distilled water, use UNdistilled water. It's that simple. NO distilled water. If Spring water has a few things that are not that good for people or animals, so what? Believe me. In today's litigious society, if anyone even so much as puked from drinking Spring water they later found a bacterium in, it would be all over CNN and govenments would immediately stop the sale of bottle water until the problem was fixed. Even though they are modestly regulated, the one thing we can count on is human greed. There are ambulance chasers (attorneys) circling above that are just waiting to sue a major water bottler for one case of illness they can prove was from bad water. This to me is the best evidence that bottled water is safe. It does have the essential minerals your baby snakes need. Neonate mice you're feeding your snakes will not make up for the loss of nutrition from using distilled water.
Again, why take a chance? Even slight malnourishment during the young months of a corn can come back to haunt you when that snake is grown.
Don
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Do NOT use distilled water . . . - DonSoderberg, Sat Jan 20 16:16:22 2007