Why are fishes not able to survive in distilled water?

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  CIVILPRINCESS

  maybe because the essential minerals are absent...:?:
  
  due to this less nutrient and mineral content, this distilled water is used for the purposes like batteries, engines, chemical lab purpose and not for the consumption purposes.
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  Saandeep Sreerambatla

  Are you sure fishes are not able to survive?
  
  If yes then it could be the lack of minerals mostly Iron!!
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  CIVILPRINCESS

  yes ES the distilled water is not used for consumption...it is used only for batteries , lab purposes,etc.
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  gohm

  Salt water fish at least can be, that is the preferred type of water to use as a base since it is chlorine free.
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  kumar_nitin

  hello ES, hello CIVILPRINCESS,
  actual reason of this answer is OSMOSIS and REVERSE OSMOSIS processes..
  as the water doesn't have any dissolved minerals, the ones in fish' body began to move in distilled water, simultaneously, fish does nog gets able to respire in it also, this is because the oxygen content is extremely low to nil.
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  raj87verma88

  Because when we boil water the dissolved gases including oxygen escape. And fish too need oxygen for their survival.
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  CIVILPRINCESS

  but i dont think distilled water is boiled....😕
  
  @kumar :i really didnt think in the reverse osmosis view..😀
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  raj87verma88

  @Civilprincess: You cannot distill water before boiling it first. During distillation, water is boiled and is converted into steam, the steam is then allowed to condense. This way the water is 100% pure.