Safe water

[vikingdad]

I need some help I don’t have a ro unit and my tap water is nitrate crazy. I have been told use drinking water from the store and I have been told don’t use drinking water use distilled water but I have also been told that distilled water has copper in it. WHAT DO I USE any help or thoughts would be great thanks in advance
Brian

 

[ryanhayes9]

see if ur lfs sells it. mine does

 

[vikingdad]

yes I have one fish store that does but it is mixed with salt already and sells for 1.00 a gallon.. Thats just crazy

 

[lion_crazz]

You don't have any wal-marts or grocery stores?

 

[katz]

I buy my water from Wal-mart for 33 cents a gallon.
Katz

 

[vikingdad]

What kind drinking or distilled and 33cents the cheapest I found there was .65

 

[cabin7882]

my Walmart is around 69 cents too kind of insane! One says reverse osmosis and one says steam distilled which one is best I don't get it?

 

[dragonzim]

Not all Walmarts sell RO water. I've looked in 3 of them near me and none have the in store filter that many others have. I had been buying containers of distilled there for 65 cents a gallon but I just went looking over the last 2 days and they were all out of stock.

 

[rkmayphd]

I get my RO from Walmart. They have a unit there in the store. I bought a five gallon water cooler container for $11 and refill it for $1.58. They do sell it for about .68 in the gallon jugs.

 

[bang guy]

Distilled is fine.

 

[vikingdad]

Originally Posted by Bang Guy
Distilled is fine.
I have been told by five or six people now that they hold the distilled water in copper vates and the copper can leak into the water.

 

[unleashed]

if you must use tap water treat it with prime before adding it to your tank this will detoxify ammonia and nitrates also nutrilizes chlorine and chlorimine.making it safe for your stock

 

[bang guy]

Originally Posted by vikingdad
I have been told by five or six people now that they hold the distilled water in copper vates and the copper can leak into the water.
These days it's usually plastic or Stainless.

 

[vanos]

I use distilled for topoffs. I get much more evaporation in the winter compared to the summer.