Bottled Water

[Stayingalive]

Does one need to dechlorinate bottled drinking water?

I have used bottled water with my previous betta and was successful for two years without dechlorinating the water, nor did my betta look/act distressed in any way, but having to recently replace my first betta and having two bettas die on me within a week, I'm now wondering if this should be done.

I want to get another betta but would like to avoid the angst of conducting another toilet bowl funeral.

 

[mike777]

are you takling about spring or distilled? don't use distilled! and I use spring and I didn't have to dechlorinate it. HTH

 

[Stayingalive]

I use spring or sometimes called "drinking" water.

 

[MizPlaya692003]

I Use Spring water and a few times i have used disstilled. Whats wrong with disstilled. Let us no so i wont use it no more.

 

[MAM]

um,they don't chlorinate bottled drinking water, thats kind of the whole point, its clean, been filtered by other means. but check the ingredients, they sometimes add stuff to it (minerals and such), that may be the problem with the dead bettas (or you just were unlucky enough to buy unhealthy ones, which is quite common given how these fish are transported to the stores and how many are kept at the stores......)

 

[White Whale]

I Use Spring water and a few times i have used disstilled. Whats wrong with disstilled. Let us no so i wont use it no more.

Distilled water has absolutely NOTHING in it. Fish can drown within a matter of minutes in that kind of water. You've been lucky if you hadn't had a casualty. Bottled water is already filtered, normal oxygen content, and at least has minerals from the rocks in ran over for thousands of years which are beneficial to the fish. I use Poland Spring. So let's drink to our fishes' health! CHEERS! *cling*

 

[Stayingalive]

um,they don't chlorinate bottled drinking water, thats kind of the whole point, its clean, been filtered by other means. 

That's what I thought too, but when I was telling a friend about losing my second replacement betta she said the water should be conditioned--even bottled drinking water. And then I read on another website that bottled water, because it has been sitting around, can be more contaminated than tap water.

It is so confusing.

P.S. I have bought my third replacement and named him Finley. Oh, great god of the fish, please don't let this one die.

 

[akhtar]

DISTILLED WATER HAS NOT MINERALS, NO NOTING INFACT ACEPT 2 HYDROGENS AND AN OXYGEN!

I THINK THATS RIGHT

 

[commanderdoom21]

I use tap water, then I stick this stuff called chlorine remover in the tank. It works. 8)