Snow Fish

Our fish tank evaporates water super fast because it's in the same room as the woodstove, and the filter splashes water into the tank like Niagra if it's not completely full. But we can't just throw more in because our well-water has phosphates in it or something that cause algea blooms to explode overnight. Then our tank looks sickly green and gross. We have to add store water by the gallon and that gets ridiculous.

First of all, I always thought it was a pointless waste of money to buy water. It's water! But here we are buying gallons of water for the stupid tank. Then we're left with empty gallon jugs lying around, and we can't refill them with our own water because of the mentioned reason. So what do we do with them all?

My solution: fill them with snow (you don't have to buy that) and let it melt. It's not well-water since it's fresh. Perfect! Except once the snow melts you only get less than a quarter of the gallon. So you have to fill 5 of them just to get a full gallon. I still think it's less wasteful than buying water, and I'm willing to go scoop untouched snow into the jugs like a weirdo.

Ps: The following pictures have nothing to do with my fish tank, but I got distracted when looking for pictures on google. How cool would these be?!