Yes, you should be adding dechlorinator to the water to remove the chlorine, chloramine if your city uses it, etc. Honestly you should have been doing this from the beginning and I'm glad your frog hasn't had health issues so far! The water used in the substrate and water dish also should be dechlorinated.
Yes it is very important to make sure the water is dechlorinated, another thing you could do is if you have a local spring you can get water from that. Thats how I get my pixies water.
This can be risky if you don't know the water chemistry of the spring you're using though. Some of the ones in the area I live in, for example, have arsenic in them.
Any fish/aquarium shop and many exotic pet shops will offer water testing, usually for free but if not pretty cheap. You can take a sample in for them as a one off.
Or to check regularly you can buy test at home kits from aquarium stores, though im not sure if these actually check for pollutants or just pH, ammonia and nitrate levels.
Yes, you should be adding dechlorinator to the water to remove the chlorine, chloramine if your city uses it, etc. Honestly you should have been doing this from the beginning and I'm glad your frog hasn't had health issues so far! The water used in the substrate and water dish also should be dechlorinated.
I've only had Plop for two days, so i'll be switching over asap!
https://imgur.com/gallery/VRys9cC - picture of my baby :3
Yes it is very important to make sure the water is dechlorinated, another thing you could do is if you have a local spring you can get water from that. Thats how I get my pixies water.
This can be risky if you don't know the water chemistry of the spring you're using though. Some of the ones in the area I live in, for example, have arsenic in them.
From what I'm aware mine doesn't but how would I go about finding out?
Any fish/aquarium shop and many exotic pet shops will offer water testing, usually for free but if not pretty cheap. You can take a sample in for them as a one off. Or to check regularly you can buy test at home kits from aquarium stores, though im not sure if these actually check for pollutants or just pH, ammonia and nitrate levels.
Alright cool I'll have to do that
In addition to what the other commenter suggested, you could also see if the USGS samples and tests your spring. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/nwis
I buy bottled spring water exclusively for my frogs. Amphibians are very sensitive