Soft or hard water for humidity?

[phasianidae]

I recently purchased a GQF 1502 incubator with the automatic five gallon pail. Should I use soft or hard water?

Thanks,

Ryan

 

[yinepu]

I use distilled water simply because we have very hard well water (lots of limestone and iron in it) and I hate to have to clean off hard water deposits..

so I went with the idea of using distilled water (like you would use in a steam iron).. figured that wouldn't leave behind any hard water deposits for me to have to scrub out later on

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

That is sound advice.

 

[Time-Out]

I use filtered water for the same reason. Distilled water is a bit costly over here.

 

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is well water bad for the eggs?

 

[yinepu]

is well water bad for the eggs?

it depends a lot on your well water

ours is high in limestone and iron.. so I wouldn't wash the eggs or spray them with our water because the gunk would clog up the pores (not to mention washing the bloom off the eggs... )
Also I suspect since our well is ancient that the bacteria count is a bit high