water for live sphagnum moss?

[ps3isawesome]

i have two trays of live sphagnum moss. I've been giving them distilled water. can i give them regular water that's not suitable for carnivorous plants?

 

[Not a Number]

It's best to stick with distilled or Reverse Osmosis filtered water.

 

[PsychoSarah]

Distilled, stay with distilled, sphagnum moss is sensitive to minerals. In addition, it is also sensitive to some chemicals that the CPs such as nepenthes can tolerate

 

[ps3isawesome]

damn it, maybe I really should just buy my own reverse osmosis system. I want to be cheap and do the easy way. Guess not

Thanks Not a Number and PsychoSarah for the response.

 

[carbonetc]

Sphagnum is more sensitive to poor water than nepenthes are. That's one of the reasons to use sphagnum as a canary in the coalmine.