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How to Protect Your Fish from Tap Water
In the natural state, water in lakes and rivers might contain minerals, salts, tannins, humic acids and organic material. These ingredients give specific qualities to the water. Numerous species of fish have evolved with special requirements for many of these natural ingredients. Several of the ingredients are disease inhibitors. Yet this same water in which fish are happy is dramatically altered during its passage to your tap.
Why Water Authorities Treat Catchment Water
To achieve acceptable standards for human health, catchment water if any water for human
usage may require treatment for excessive salinity, hardness, minerals causing a colloidal
effect, bad taste, odours, iron or magnesium which may cause staining of washing, algae,
organic material and high levels of bacteria. All or any of these treatments might affect
your fish.
The Treatments
The most common is chlorine. The quantity used however, varies according to the water
source and...
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This topic goes on to cover -
- Why elements in tap water can mean death to fish
- Symptoms of bad tap water
- Steps to make tap water safe
