Wish

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Just a quick question to the Fish keeping people on here.
I've got 3 Goldfish in a cold water fish tank and when im changing the water (10 -20%) at a time, I have some bottles of tap water at room temperature that I replace it with.

Question.

Can I use filtered water from my water filter that is fitted in the Kitchen, Or should I just replace with normal tap water.

I live in South East Kent and have quite hard water.


WISH

prodriva

From what I understand about household water filters they remove most of the beneficial minerals. It's a bit like reverse osmosis water whereby you have to add the minerals back to the water before adding to the tank.

I would suggest you just stick with the general tap water and use some de-chlorinator tap water treatment which is cheap as chips.

CupraT

We just use tap water on ours with some water conditioner added.

From the water level test kits that we have (ammonia etc) everything seems to be OK.