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I have well water at my house which doesn't have chlorine but it very likely has a high mineral content. Is this ok, is there some way I can treat it, or should I buy water?

I would buy it. Unless you want to have it tested and do some research if it would be ok.

We use distilled water for everything except out tads. For our tads I use aged tap water stess coat tadpole tea.
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Quality Captives

I have well water with a high mineral content too. Fortunately, my well was chosen among several in the valley for thorough testing by the State. It contains no fertilizer or pesticide contaminants, toxic minerals, or bacteria. I use it for the aquariums with one of the aquarium products that precipitate the some of the extra calcium carbonate, but it does leave crusty precipitation on glass. So for misting and the vivarium waterways, I use bottled spring water or artesian water. I had a bad experience using distilled water for misting when the imitators were raising their own tads in bromeliad leaves. It doesn't contain any electrolytes and the osmotic pressure is reversed, so it causes the tads to lose them. So don't use distilled water with tads. I do use the well water for the little baths in the nursery/quarantine tanks without treating it. These are little cups on edge with bits of foliage in them that I rinse out daily. The babies like to cool off and rest in this and they have all remained healthy.
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Patty
Lost River, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
3 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
5 D. imitator
4 D. leukomelas
4 D. pumilio Bastimentos

I was wondering about the water also. I don't want to leave hard water stains allover the place from all the moisture. I was thinking of using tap water treated with the fish solution (declorinator and stress coat), but then I remembered my fish tanks still got hard water stain. What do I use to stop this? My drinking water has reverse osmosis, but has added minerals.