Advice on pixie enclosure

[Lija]

You need dechlorinated tap (like for fish tanks, tap with water conditioner, my fav is prime), or spring water, filtered is not really good for them. In florida if he gets lots of natural light it should be fine. Normally when you think what an animal needs you look into their natural habitat and they live in africa in swamps, under blazing sun, but it does get cooler at night. I’m sure thats very similar to florida well, more or less.

[Willieboosie]

It is, very much so and high humidity the most of the time. I want to first say that I’m grateful again for your time. But one thing about the tap water is I may need to test it. I’m relatively sure that ours has fluoride and maybe other chemicals. I knew that distilled water was bad but not carbon filtered. Is it bad for the same reason (lack of minerals?) or something else? I’ll start spring water tomorrow for the time being or could I just boil my tap water to remove chlorine, perhaps other things?

[Lija]

You are welcome!
yes, distilled is stripped of all minerals, there is article somewhere about water comparison, dont remember where, its attached in one of subforums. Boiling dont really remove chlorine, they use it in more stable form now. Just get a water conditioner, its really cheap, and used for fish tank water. You need the same quality water as you would for fresh water fish tanks.

[Willieboosie]

I found the post you mentioned and just did my first batch of conditioned tap today. I’ve also kept it more moist than I was before and bought an extra water area to add in today! Unfortunately I fed him some calciworms the other day and was unaware that I needed to poke holes in them and he passed a few whole. . You’ve been invaluable though and I hope you have a good rest of your week.