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i have heard about dis-stilled water good for breeding bettas, so i picked up a bottle. i used in moderations in all of my breeding tanks. what makes this water better for breeding fishes. i believe i heard this from petfishtalk and in one of there breeding sections dis-stilled water came up.

It's pure water.
Basically has no mineral content.

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What is distilled water?

Water you get from the tap contains all sorts of metal ions in it. For example Fe2+ ions, Cu2+ ions, etc etc depends on where you live. Distilled water is pretty much deioninised water. It means they don't have any metal ions in it. It's pure H2O.

I think it's what it means. Learnt it in Chemistry.
Yea, pretty sure about it, if what you are talking about is distilled water.

Yeah, it is pretty much just pure water. It is recommended that distilled or reverse osmosis water be used in a breeding tank for certain fish species, because the pure stuff will lower the pH of naturally-alkaline water. Bettas like an acidic pH, and distilled water added to alkaline water can help bring a pH down to the acidic side.

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Distilling water involves, basically, boiling the water, collecting the steam, then cooling it to drip into another container, thus leaving all the minerals behind.

As a side note, deionizing uses electrical current to remove the minerals.

Distillation is an effective process and, what's more important, it can be done with a lot of improvisation. You can heat water with whatever is at hand: fire, electricity, or whatever. You can use almost anything that holds water for a boiler, as long as you can direct the steam into a cooler. A cooler can be a long piece of copper tubing bent into a spiral. All you need is something that will just cool the steam down. In a worst case scenario, you can distill water with an ordinary household pot and two pot lids. Boil water in a pot covered with the first lid. After a while, you'll see that the water in the pot vaporizes, and condenses on the lid (this is distilled water). Now replace the lid with the second lid, and turn the first one vertically, so that all condensed water collects at one point, and then pour it into a cup. Meanwhile, more distilled water condenses on the second pot lid, so just repeat the above steps again... until you have a full cup.

Distillation will remove from water almost anything, even heavy metals, poisons, bacteria and viruses. However, it does not remove substances that have boiling points at a lower temperature than water. Some of these substances are oils, petroleum, alcohol and similar substances, which in most cases don't mix with water. Also, remember that substances removed from water remain in the boiler, so you'll need to clean it up every once in awhile.

Distilled water can be used directly and does not need to be boiled again. As it is already hot, you can use it to prepare tea, or similar drinks.


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I didn't know there was that much to say about distilled water Basically it's use in fish breeding is to lower the hardness and ph. When it gets really dry outside during the summer my well water will climb to a ph of 8.6-9.0 and a kh/gh somewhere around 20. I use distilled to bring it back to the usual 7.6-8.0. You can also take distilled water and add what you want to create any type of water for breeding any species of fish. Rainwater is also useful if you are in an area of low pollution. It's not as pure as distilled but is usually a ph of 6.8-7.0 with almost no kh or gh.

distilled water doesnt have any impurities in it, as everyone said. using it in a tank makes sense, but being able to have larges amounts for water changes and large tanks seems rather impractical. you just cant get that large of an amount. If you want extreamly pure water, try distilling it with a very hot blue flame, ex:bunson burner, propane torch. its hard to think of a way to get really large amounts to fill a tank with. good idea, but it seems kinda impractical. collecting the steam it just returns in drops, and when your ralking tankfulls, thats alot of drops, using it for water changes to low ph is a good idea though, i hadnt thought of that,

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