What you say may be true, but it does depend on where you live and the
degree of pollution in your area, or even in the Country where you live,
and
some countries are highly polluted, and over populated.
Also some polluted areas have large water storage Dams, Lakes, etc, which
strangely enough are filled via a catchment area in the same polluted
area,
and there filled by Rain Water.
In most town piped water supplies , the water is loaded with Chorine,
and
other things, to the extent that someone who is not used to treated piped
water, can smell the Chorine. There is also the argument that they have to
add these chemicals, as the bad state of the pipe network requires it.
But what do you do, when you only have Tank water, From the roof, Rain
water is collected and stored in Tin Tanks, Galvanised Tanks, Plastic
Tanks, and strangely enough has no Chemical additives. The kids don,t turn
Green, The dog's Pups arn;t born with two heads, the vegies, that you
water, don,t grow strange shapes, or taste funny. And the Frog's that
live
in the Tank filling tray, don't grow to a size that would worry the cat.
And yes I have also lost fish, due to water changes, when it's been
raining,
and the tank contents gets stirred up. But what else do we use, when we
live in a small country village, If WE buy water, it comes out of the
local
creek, down the road. I test my tank water, it,s 7.2 - 7.4 ph normally.
I have a friend who lives in the Outback, they have a property about half
the size of Texas, they measure the place in square miles, not acres,
which
would be average for our cattle stations, two hours drive to the main
road,
and when they go to Town, they Fly. Are you telling me that there water
is
, as unstable and polluted as water in downtown, Sydney. or better still
New
York
.. Not everyone's water supply is polluted, or requires chemicals, it
depends
where you live, and how populated your area is, And where do you think
the
popular Bottled Water, that you buy in the supermarket comes from. ??
bassett
"Margrit Ryssel" <nightowl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Carl Gregory wrote:
>> Elaine T <eetmail-aquaria@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> news:Q1p5e.795$RQ7.627@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>Rainwater has it's own pitfalls since it brings fine particles and
>>>pollution down with it. You will also have to purchase buffers to
>>>make the rainwater suitable for your fish as rainwater is extremely
>>>soft and has no buffering capacity.
>>>
>>>Oz thought he lost fish from rainwater bringing down jet fuel. In
>>>parts of the US, rain contains sulfuric acid from coal emissions. I
>>>noticed that sometimes my fish were stressed after a half
>>>rainwater/half tapwater water change so I think that even my strategy
>>>of waiting until a storm is partway through to start collecting may
>>>not be good enough. Like Oz, I'm fairly close to an air****t and a
>>>major freeway as well.
>>>HTH, and again I'm sorry about your fish.
>
> I, too, offer my deepest condolences. When + where does the funeral
take
> place? I intend to participate!
>
>
> SCNR
>
> M. from Switzerland
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