Water softener

[Natep]

Hi,

This is my first post here so hey everyone!

I'm curious for an answer regarding watering my jumping spider. I have only just started with keeping spiders and im curious as to know if my water softener will affect my little critter. It is a water softener where i have to add salt blocks to the machine and if this will affect my spider in anyway?

All answers will be welcoming as i said this is my first spider and i don't want to get it wrong!

Thankyou in advance for your answers and comments

(P.S. Here's a picture of my little buddy)

 

[CRX]

I would just use regular, dechlorinated water to be safe. Or bottled or spring water of course.

 

[DomGom TheFather]

I have a salt machine to save the plumbing and appliances. My well water is crazy hard.
No problems here.

 

[The Snark]

Depends on the quality and age of your water treatment system. With all properly made and functioning systems the salt is a non issue. If you have a questionable system, cheap or old, it's wise to have a salinity test kit which is widely available on line or where the treatment system was purchased.

How it works. A 'filter' is filled with resin beads to which minerals are attracted and get stuck to. Eventually the beads get coated solid with the minerals and become ineffective. The system periodically switches to a cleaning cycle where a strong salt solution, brine is flushed over the beads. The sodium breaks the other minerals loose from the beads which is then flushed out along with the brine. The flushing cycle should never allow any water past the resin during this flushing cycle. The brine never gets past that treatment stage.

In this neck of the woods my resin system melted down due to crap valves and components. Manufacturers saving some money. I dumped the resin system then just keep one resin filter in a brine bath while another does the job. I periodically rinse the one in the brine and swap it in putting the used one in a new brine bath. Brine = 3 tablespoons salt in 2 liters water. After the resin filter I have a ceramic filter in a clear housing. When the ceramic filter darkens, minerals are getting past the resin, I do the resin swap out and brine flush.

Want crappy water? Our water supply has 7 stages for household and laundry water and 10 additional stages for drinking water. Our raw water literally resembles mineral laden sewage. The first two stages is a sediment trap to catch the sand silt and gravel. I flush around 150 lbs of mud out of their sedimentation gallerys once a year.

 

[LadyShia77]

I usually use bottled (distilled or spring) water with my spoods. I have city water, though.

 

[The Snark]

In most municipal water systems, they deliver a liquid which mostly contains H2O.
Raw water that can contain anything -> flocculant injection -> filtration galleries excluding particulates larger than 25 to 100 ug, micrograms -> biocidal chemical injection -> aeration -> sedimentation gallery -> distribution. Aeration usually reduces chlorine or other biocide to a no-more-than a prescribed level, usually 4 ppm so the distributed water continues to kill organisms in the distribution pipes.
To make municipal water safe for exposure as in showers it is recommended to reduce particulates below 5ug. For drinking water particulates should be reduced to smaller than 2 ug, at least one stage of carbon block to remove chemicals and a resin mineral accumulator should be present. If sterile water is desired particulates should be reduced below .5 ug and a second or more additional carbon stages followed by UV or Reverse Osmosis. Most RO systems have 4 or more carbon filters and a post membrane high density carbon block.
Note: UV systems are ineffective if particulates larger than 1 ug are present. The particulates shadow organisms in the water protecting them from the UV. RO removes all particulates larger than .0005 or better but the membrane rapidly degrades when exposed to chemicals, thus the pre membrane carbon filters.

How bad can municipal water be? Welcome to our chemical modern day romance. Of the several thousand chemicals now found in 'spring water' lets take a common fungicide Tebuconazole found leaching into water tables around lumber mills and wherever lumber is stored..
Ethyltrianol, Etiltrianol, Fenetrazole, Terbuconazole, Terbutrazole,(+/-)-alpha-(2-(4-chlorophenyl)ethyl)-alpha-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-ethanol ,1-(4-Chlorophenyl)-4,4-dimethyl-3-(1,2,4-triazole-1-yl-methyl)pentane-3-ol,1-(4-chlorophenyl)-4,4-dimethyl-3-(1,2,4-triazol-1-ylmethyl)-3-pentanol,1-(4-chlorophenyl)-4,4-dimethyl-3-(1,2,4-triazol-1-ylmethyl)pentan-3-ol,1-(4-chlorophenyl)-4,4-dimethyl-3-(1,2,4-triazolylmethyl)pentan-3-ol,1-(4-chlorophenyl)-4,4-dimethyl-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-ylmethyl)-3-pentanol,1-(4-chlorophenyl)-4,4-dimethyl-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-ylmethyl)pentan-3-ol,1-(4-chlorphenyl)-4,4-dimethyl-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-ylmethyl)-3-pentanol,1-(4-chlorphenyl)-4,4-dimethyl-3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-ylmethyl)pentan-3-ol,1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-ethanol, a-[2-(4-chlorophenyl)ethyl]-a-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-,1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-ethanol, a-[2-(4-chlorophenyl)ethyl]-a-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-, (±)-,Bay HWG 1680,Elite,Folicur,Folicur 1.2 EC ,GWG 1609 ,HWG 1608,Lynx 1.2 ,Preventol A 8,Raxil,a-(2-(4-chlorophenyl)ethyl)-a-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-ethanol

 

[tammygr8t]

ive always used bottled water on a cottonball inside a watering dish, and Raven love it, as well has her babies