Why not Spring Water?

[ninjaboy]

Why is it advised for us to not use Spring Water and use Tap Water that is treated? Im wondering why because I know we're supposed to use treated tap water, but on the covers of the Petco cups for bettas, it says one of the things to do is use Springwater for the bettas when doing water changes.

 

[RandomWiktor]

I could be wrong, but I thought it was distilled water that you weren't supposed to use, namely because it is lacking many of the minerals that tap and spring have which are beneficial to the fish. I am going to be using spring water on my bettas soon (treated though, just to be safe) because the water in my area has been deemed unsafe for human consumption, and thus is probably not too safe for the sensitive little buggers my bettas are; I've had several die of tumors, and I'm wondering if it might be water-related...

 

[rollntider]

dunno, i never heard that......

 

[SRC]

RW is right. Bottled water (ie spring water) is fine to use..it is distilled water that you should steer away from.

The process the water goes through takes everything out of the water..leaving the fish with nothing. I'm sure losing those minerals leaves the water lacking in areas...like maybe it doesn't allow it to contain enough of a oxygen level to support fish life.

These small differences between tap water and distilled water should not produce any noticable difference in ice cubes, however.

A less subtle difference might arise from the fact that many taps "aerate" the water by passing it through a fine mesh with an air intake. Tap water out of most taps has quite a bit of air dissolved in it. If you leave a glass of tap water out for a while you may notice tiny air bubbles forming on the side. If you freeze the water quickly, the ice will form before the air has a chance to bubble out. The bubbles will form anyway inside of the ice cubes because the dissolved air does not fit into the ice crystal lattice. So if you look at ice cubes made from tap water compared with distilled water, you might find that the tap water ones are not as clear and transparent as the distilled water ones because of all the air bubbles inside. But this isn't a fixed property of tap water or distilled water, just in their handling (you can dissolve air in the distilled water too!).
http/van.hep.uiuc.edu/van/qa/section/Sta...20128220336.htm

 

[OohFeeshy]

Theres just no point. Its expenisive and awkward, unless you have radioactive water, just use tap water

 

[ninjaboy]

I was just wondering why I heard someone say not to use spring water and on the cup of each betta it says use spring water. I guess there shouldn't be a difference. The only real difference is the money issue. So I will be sticking to Tap water...hehe no money for spring water. Thanks for all the replies!

 

[afireinside]

Spring water helps?
Me mum, buys like 50 packages a week, I'm sure she'll won't mind any missing.