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How many PPM of Chlorine can salamanders tolerate in water? And Chloramine?
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On a short-term basis, or long-term? For a fully aquatic animal, or one that is just sprayed? I don't have a specific answer, but I suspect the level tolerated would be quite different, depending on how long the animal were exposed.

Here's a question for you: does your local water have chlorine or chloramine? And at what PPM?
 
It does not have Chloramine (just wanted to check), but in my area the water contains 6-8 PPM "free chlorine residual." I was wondering because for general use with my tanks (misting, refilling water etc.) I use filtered water, but for wetting dirt, moss and cleaning tanks I use the hose.
 
I would stick with using filtered water for everything- better safe than sorry, eh? ;-) Spring or well water, distilled water, or reverse osmotic water, with RO water being the best in my mind.
 
I use dechlorinator and just make up 3 5 gallon buckets (you could do less, but that's usually what I use in an average week) at a time, and refill my mister bottles from that.
 
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