Question about "the little dripper"

[summoner12]

First of all, boiling will NOT create distilled water. Chlorine is a gas and will disipate within twenty four hours. This process can be improved upon by putting asn air stone and air pump in the jug. Buying distilled water can get a bit pricey plus the lugging og the bottles.

I am capturing the Distilled Water that is a byproduct from my air conditioning. The drain line can be extended into a hole dug under the the drain, bury a 5 gal bucket and slip a clean gallon jug (milk bottle) inside the bucket with the extended flexible tube running into the jug. Bury the bucket just above ground level to keep dirt out. When you bring in a jug and replace it with a new one, run the water through the basket and filter on your coffee maker. You will end up with gallons of distilled water without adding salt or other chemicals.

Catching condensed water from your AC cooling fins is by no means cleaner than even 'bad' tap water.

I would NOT recommend this to ANYONE.

There can be, gosh, WHO KNOWS WHAT on your cooling fins... Not to mention if there is any corrosion on the fins that runs off with the water.

Best bet, if you wanna be cheap about it, get at least a britta filter or let the water sit out over night.

But RO and simple carbon filtration for under the sink is not an expensive project for those consuming a lot of water for their animals.

 

[dominicthechameleon]

Did you get yours from LLLReptile? Thats where I got mine and it came with mini packs of ReptiSafe too. Ms. Lynette who works at LLLReptile told me that regular tap water is fine to use. Don't worry about it so much.

OK so I am finally in my last stages of preparing for my new panther that i will soon be getting, hopefully on a month or two...but my question is... i purchased a little dripper and it came with a little package called "reptisafe" and it is supposed to be a water conditioner for the water and supposedly removes chloramines and chlorine.....my question is, should i always be using this when refilling up the little drippier??? should i go out to the store and buy more of this stuff??? and when it comes to misting, do you guys use regular tap water?? do you treat the water??? do you boil the water???
any recommendations and advice is gladly appreciated!