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Anonymous
Basically, if you don't use distilled or heavily-filtered water, you're going to have problems eventually like mold, snails especially, etc. Good news is that grocery store water is hella cheap (and, you only need to replace about 10% of the water every 2 weeks to a month, which for you is 2 gallons). Also, you could go get your own reverse osmosis/deionizer filter system (RO/DI) from your neighborhood Lowe's for like $100, then deal with changing the deionizer cartridge & RO filter every so often. Lots of people hook it up under a kitchen sink and just turn it on on demand for fishtanks.
Some independent (not PetSMART or Petco) pet stores/aquarium stores will actually sell RO/DI freshwater or saltwater, this is good if you can get it. For regular changes, you'll probably want to just go buy a filter system though.
Or don't, last time I had a freshwater tank was in highschool. I used to keep a clean milk jug, fill it up with tapwater, and add a couple drops of dechlorinator and call it good. My fish died eventually, might want to consider that.
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