I’ve been hearing it’s fine?

[violet schooner]

Is normal tap water fine for my Leo? I’m hearing reptisafe can harm them as well..

[shy gate]

ive never heard any claims that reptisafe harms reptiles

tap water varies regionally. its always safer to use a dechlorinator

or just used bottled water

[neat charm]

nqa i mean reptisafe has electolytes which can harm if overused but if you arnet basically giving them pure reptisafe and its a healthy animal its benefitial if anything

reptisafe also detoxifies ammonia and nitrites but if you need to worry about that in your tap water i wouldnt be drinking it anyway lol

[shy gate]

i dont think this is true. its probably a claim made by zoomed but plenty of aquarium products make the claim that it detoxifies ammonia and nitrites (including seachem prime) but they dont actually have any cycling benefit

[pliant linden]

I use reptisafe and my animals are perfectly safe. And I use it in a water filter / dispenser. So it’s not just one tiny drop.

[pliant linden]

Please make sure to disclaim this btw

Just cus someone could read that and panic about it

[pliant linden]

Like I stated above though. Reptisafe is perfectly safe. Where did you hear it’s harmful.

[civic obsidian]

before we got our r/o system/filtering system fixed at work, we used reptisafe for our tens of reptiles for a long time and never had any issues or health concerns due to it

[neat charm]

true but the point isnt to give bacteria to aid in cycling its to make fish in cycles easy and to make water safe in emergencies

[violet schooner]

Idk who but form this server in general

[shy gate]

reptisafe isnt even marketed as an aquarium conditioner. i have no idea what youre talking about here /gen

[neat charm]

you brought up the point that detoxifying does nothing to help cycle, i was elaborating on how that isnt the point of detoxification.

[shy gate]

i dont get it because the same bacteria starter meant to aid cycles also "makes fish in cycles easy". its the same thing but reptisafe doesnt do either of them.

i just dont understand why you brought in fish in cycles. all reptisafe does is dechlorinate and nothing else

[neat charm]

reptisafe detoxifies nitrite and ammonia

[shy gate]

where does it say that

[neat charm]

you said you dont belive that and went on to talk about aquarium products and how they dont help cycles

everywhere reptisafe is listed?

[shy gate]

i was making a comparison between reptisafe is a water conditioner and other water conditioners.

[shy gate]

could you link me to where that claim is made then

because ive never seen it in my life

[neat charm]

https://zoomed.com/reptisafe-water-conditioner/

also any website selling or showing reptisafe

[shy gate]

okay thanks

but i still dont believe it does that. im sure if i, or anyone else an an actual test it wouldnt do anything besides dechlorinate.

the comparison i made prior to aquarium products is because both seachem prime and nutrafin cycle say they neutralize ammonia and nitrites as well but time and time again theyve proven to not do those things. and i believe reptisafe is the same thing. its just a dechlorinator.

anything that claims to neutralize ammonia and nitrites is claiming to contain beneficial bacteria used in cycling

[neat charm]

thats a big claim

[civic obsidian]

please remember to disclaim or give sources, thank you!:)

[pliant linden]

If someone here is telling you reptisafe and such is unsafe and harmful please if you remember who let me know because that is sharing misinformation with what we currently know of the product.

With us being a scientific server. Someone would need either studies or actual evidence from the company themselves like recall orders. People can’t just claim something is unsafe because jim Bob over on YouTube said so or chatgpt said so. That would be like someone saying that pure calcium carbonate is harmful to reptiles but having no proof to back it up /gen

[neat charm]

LOL

[pliant linden]

What part is funny. /gen

[neat charm]

the jim bob part lpl

[violet schooner]

Sorry about that

[pliant linden]