Re: [APD] Heated Water

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

You should be able to find out from your local water
supplier what the copper content of the water they deliver
to your pipes typically tests at. Do you have a special
reason for thinking that you tap water picks up an
extraordinary amount of copper in the household plumbing?

Scott H.

--- Reggie Bustinza <numbr_9 at hotmail_com> wrote:
> Is adding hot water straight out of the tap good for the
> aquarium?  I've 
> always heard that one shouldn't drink water hot from the
> tap because it has 
> probably stripped metals and stuff out of the water
> heater/pipes.  Does hot 
> water dilute copper faster, possibly raising copper
> levels enough to 
> hurt/kill inverts?
> 
> 'Cause if it's not bad for the aquarium, then I'm gonna
> start using hot tap 
> water as opposed to what I've been doing (drawing cold
> water then heating it 
> up in jugs w/ water heaters).


=====
S. Hieber

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