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Fresh water that is free of impurities and cannot be tap water. You can go to the grocery or any other place to get Poland Springs water and get a filter at a pet store. Then you are ready!

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Not neccessarily,As long as the water you use in your aquarium has no chlorine,chloramine, around 7.0 pH , and has no mineral deposits (just to be safe) your goldfish should be fine.

note: if you would like to use tap water, use a "water conditioner" to remove chlorine and chloramine.

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Yes, it is much better than tap water. Just make sure that you add whatever conditioners you usually put into the tank after adding the distilled water. Distilled water will not have chlorine in it, but it will also be missing things like very small amounts of salt that can be good even for fresh water fish.

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