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Is it safe to use distilled water in a fishtank2007-11-24 23:37:21

Personally I recommend testing your tap water for pH, and kH. Then taking a look at a site like http://liveaquaria.com/ and find fish that fit your water chemistry.

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Supposedly so but I had a bad experience with it. Unexplainable die off in tank a few hours after partial water change with distilled water. Now we only use tap water that has been aged for at least a day and add a product called stress coat when performing the weekly water changes.

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The problem with distilled/purified water is that it has no enzymes or electrolytes in it. The fish will die if there is too much of this water put in. Even rain water can be a problem because of this.

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Depends on how it tasted. If you just dont like the taste of water then ok but if it tasted like it had chemicals in it or something was wrong w/ it DO NOT use it. when you use it do not fill it completely with distilled in one setting. You can use it to add to a tank fine, but no more than 25% at a time. If you are going to fill a tank with distilled water fill it and let it sit running without fish for about 1 week then ou can introduce the fish. Distilled water is very compact and there is little air in it and a full tank of distilled water that hasn't been run a while will feel like the fish is at a very high altitude where the air is thin

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what you could do is buy a bucket with a lid. then fill a bucket with tap water after 24 -36 hours. cover the lid and that is it . hope this helps. good luck