Non Chlorinated Water

User Question
Thank-you very much for this wonderful site. I have been considering

getting a parakeet for about a month, and the information provided here

has helped me decide to go for it :).

My question is about drinking and bathing water. I have read on other

sites that birds need non-chlorinated drinking water. Do they also need

non-chlorinated bathing water? You talk about bathing them in the sink or

shower but you might have a well. If they do, will a terrarium water

conditioner that removes chlorine, chloramines, and ammonia work for

treating the bath water or not?

Thank-you very much for your time.

Lisa's Answer
I would definitely agree for the day to day drinking water, that you don't want to be feeding chlorine to a keet. Chlorine is put into water to slay the organisms in it, i.e. to damage living creatures. Us humans are very big so the chlorine is in small enough amounts that it doesn't hurt us. But keets are tiny, so even a small percentage of chlorine will still be a lot for them.

On the bathwater though, while they might sip a bit or two, they won't be drinking it down. I wouldn't go out of my way to buy botled water for the keet's bathtub. If you really want to buy a terrarium conditioner, then that should be fine - if it's good enough that creatures *live* in the water that results, it should be quite fine for a bird that just splashes around in it to clean her feathers.

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