Tap Water

[jd_energy]

I seen in this one post a person said you shouldn't use the hot side of your tap water. Does anyone know anything about this? I have always used hot and cold tap water when doing my water changes to try to get as close to the aquarium temperature as possible.

 

[Balance]

i think someone had an issue with minerals coming from their water heater or something like that. I thought the problem was they had a very old water heater in their house.....

 

[jd_energy]

I don't know, I have never had any adverse effects from it.

 

[FroggyFox]

I have read that in a few places. If you live in an older house sometimes the piping will leech some metals into the water that you dont want and it is especially apparant when using the hot water. Chances are good that if you had that problem you'd know it. I live in a pretty old house and haven't had a problem thus far

 

[uncutbulldog]

Its not a problem. Even in an older house all you have to do is let it run a few minutes before you use it.

 

[wayne]

I said it. I don't like to as I don't like to have my water sitting in a hot water tank as they reputedly leach out copper and other metals from the tank and pipes. My cold water is mostly through plastic pipes. Running the hot water for a few minutes is no cure as it still comes from the same (metal) tank.
I use cold tap water , and to warm it boil up some in a kettle and use that , 1 kettle per bucket. I have no problems doing this, but have had problems when I've used hot water from the tank.
I can physically taste the difference between my cold water and cooled water from the hot tap, and if I fill 2 tanks I can see a difference - the stuff from the hot tank is cloudier and gassier. This has been true for every house I've lived in, with both modern and ancient plumbing. The only situation it might not work in is if you didn't have a hot water storage tank, but heated with a demand heater (probably gas only?), but you only see this on one bed or studio flats I believe as your flow rates are pretty poor.