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Question: Tap Water Ice Cubes?

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Officer Puckles, a female GFP leucustic, has a normal tank temperature (between 68-70 degrees) We use distilled/purified water for her tank, but is it ok if we pop a couple tap water made ice cubes in her tank to make it a bit cooler? Or will those conditions make it unstable for her?
 
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I would make the ice cubes out of your tank water say when you do a water change as its treated and de-chlorinated. By using tap water your introducing some chlorine/chloramines and anything else thats in tap water. I've never tried using ice cubes to cool the water so i can't make that call but i don't think it would drastically change the temp
 
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Are you adding aquarium salt to your RO/distilled before putting it in the tank? Purified water lacks all minerals and can stress an animal from ion loss.
 
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