Safeway and King Soopers don't have distilled water... What water do I use to incubate my eggs????

[ILUVQUAIL]

Hi

I went down to Safeway and King soopers near me and they both told me they were "struggling" to distilled water??? What does that even mean???

Anyway, anyone know if other water works? Like Spring Water?

Thanks

 

[le_bwah]

Hi

I went down to Safeway and King soopers near me and they both told me they were "struggling" to distilled water??? What does that even mean???

Anyway, anyone know if other water works? Like Spring Water?

Thanks

Why do you need "special" water for incubating? Tap water shouldn't hurt them: there's nothing in it that's in large enough amounts to do harm when it evaporates.

 

[R2elk]

Why do you need "special" water for incubating? Tap water shouldn't hurt them: there's nothing in it that's in large enough amounts to do harm when it evaporates.

The reason for using distilled or deionized water is to keep the float valves for the water systems from plugging off.

The TDS (total dissolved solids) for many community water sources can be very high which leaves a lot of solids when the water is evaporated. If the TDS is high enough it can even plug off the pores in the eggs.

 

[le_bwah]

That makes sense. So it's not what evaporates, it's what gets left behind by evaporation. In that case, you might be able to look up TDS scores for different bottled water brands and go by that. I just googled, looks like the max allowable TDS in US drinking water is 500mg/L, some brands like Dasani claim to be as low as 22. You could probably get away with using name-brand "spring water" until you can find some distilled.