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I have been using a brita water pitcher for the snakes drinking water, and wondered if I was doing something wrong.
You guys that use bottled water or water treated with thiosulfate, is that better than just using a brita pitcher.
Also, I fill it up beforehand, and keep it in the fridge, the chlorine is free to disipate over time. The snakes like cool water, but I wouldn't recommend changing their water on feeding day unless you take the water pitcher out of the fridge, and let the water return to room temp.
It's better than city water out of the tap, right?

I really do not have an answer for you. But I'm 99% sure the chlorine and fluorine in the water dissipate if left in and open container. BUT, water companies use a newer chemical I think called chromine? It does NOT dissipate.

I just my well water or city water. I just know do not use distilled water.
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Big Tom

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That's up to you. If you drink it they can typically drink it. I personally will not go buy my animals bottled water if I am drinking from the tap. typically in the wild they would be drinking from streams, city runoff, irrigation ditches, etc. I am sure that it collects some pretty nasty things in it and they seem to do fine......
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I hear that if you use thiosulfate to get rid of chlirine (Which works perfectly.) and you are really adding thio to the new chemical water companies use you'll have residual ammonia. Bad for fish, I assume not great for snakes.