can you use tap water to fill a freshwater tank? if not what water do you put in? what does treated water cost

Question

does petco have this water if i need it

Answer 1

Just tap water is fine in most every case. Be sure to use dechlorinating drops before you use it in your tank though. Those drops are available at any pet store.

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Answer 2

You want to use tap water for a freshwater tank. The purified water most places sell is actually too pure...and is lacking the minerals that tap water has and the inhabitants need to thrive. Just use some dechlorinator with it before you add it to the tank.

Answer 3

Yes you do fill a tank with tap water just make sure that you put some water conditioner and let it settle in for about 10 minutes.

Answer 4

what I have is a 5gallon water jug that I fill up with tap water then add a 5$ water treater that treats up to 400gallons and then add the amount of water that i need to my tank. the product I use is called AquaSafe® with BioExtract. You can buy it at walmart in other words it's easy to find. This is the cheapest and easiest thing that I've found. Plus since i've been using this product i have no yet lost a fish :)

Answer 5

For the most part tap water is just fine as long as you remove any chlorine/chloramine first.

If your tap water is from a well and/or has chemicals (nitrates, sulfur, iron, high/low pH, etc.) that you'd rather not use it in your tank some of the larger supermarkets and super WalMarts have self-serve reverse osmosis water stations where you can buy purified water for $0.25 per gallon once you've bought the container. This water lacks some of the natural elements (calcium, magnesium) found in tap water, but you can buy a powdered additive (called Osmoprep) to add it back.

Some pet stores will sell RO water as well, but it'll be more expensive if you buy it from them.

Answer 6

You can use tap water, but you have to treat the water with a special product before you add the fish in order to make the water safe for them. The product is not very expensive, and if you ask someone who works at the pet store, they should be able to show you just what you need.

Answer 7

petco will sell you a little bottle that you can use to treat your water------generally one drop/gallon.........you need to start saving milk cartons if you plan to keep fish because properly ages water is best (don't need the drops if you age your water)------thats why when we set up a new tank we like to fill it with water and get the filters going for a few days before we add the fish----and then we siphon off and replace 20---30% of the water about once/ month with water that has been aged in milk cartons (plastic)------so a 20 gallon tank would need 4-6 gallons of water to replace that which we removed.-i give you this only as a rough guide for estimating your needs which could differ due to many factors such as number of fish in your tank and the types and quantities of food you supply them----etc----etc----etc...

Answer 8

Yes, that's is what you use to fill the tank. You need to get a water conditioner to take out the chlorine and others things in the water. Yes, you can get it at petco or petsmart.

Answer 9

If you couldn't use tap water I wouldn't have over 20 tanks. Prime or Aquasafe are the top two water conditioners.

Answer 10

yes you can use tap water but you have to get water treater, you can get it for about 2 dollars at petco.
do NOT put in just normal tap water without putting the water treater in it.
when u put the water treater in it wait about 10 minutes so it will get mixed in the tap water
make sure the tap water is about the same temperature as it was previously

Answer 11

use tap water but use a water conditioner OR leave the tap water out for at lease 24 hours until the choline evaporates OR you can use rain water that has not been sitting out for a long period of time.