The cold water supply is too cold to work with for any extended
amount of time ... It comes in at about 40F - 50F.
--- Moontanman_at_aol.com wrote:
> I am surprised you use water from your hot water tap at all. Hot
> water is
> usually full of metallic contaminates. That is why you should never
> drink water
> from the hot water faucet. You can actually get poisoned by hot water
> if you
> drink it regularly. People who use it to make coffee, tea or other
> beverages
> have come down with heavy metal poisoning. I would think it would be
> bad for fish
> as well.
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