What do you do with your old saltwater? - Page 3

sslak · 02/26/2011, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by AeonPhoenix

Into the tub and down the drain. Doesn't a 5 gallon bucket into the toilet make a mess?

Nope, toilets flush when you add water above the normal fill level, that's what normally happens when you push the lever....

So as you pour the 5gal bucket in the toilet flushes itself until you stop pouring. Once all your buckets are empty, press the lever to re-fill the toilet with clean water and you're done.

muttley000 · 02/26/2011, 08:24 PM

He uses his RO wastewater on the yard, not used saltwater.

I use my old SPS water into a 100 gallon rubermaid I have some soft corals in. I use that water on a pair of small systems that are fish only and a pod grow out experiment. After that it goes into the drain that goes out to the ditch in the summer, and gets poured on the stone driveway in the winter.

WXB · 02/26/2011, 08:53 PM

If you have a septic put it in your yard. I you live in the city the drain is just fine. If you rent and your landlord is a TOOL, WHO CARES RIGHT.

ludiNano · 02/26/2011, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by WXB

If you have a septic put it in your yard. I you live in the city the drain is just fine. If you rent and your landlord is a TOOL, WHO CARES RIGHT.

I think its been decided that the yard is a bad idea unless you want a patch of dead grass.

Brwestern · 02/26/2011, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by myfrostymember

i spill most of it in the floor so there isnt much left when im done

By far my favorite haha

mrfish55 · 02/26/2011, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Brwestern

How does the FOWLR tank do with used water?

Works out great, water params on the reef are spot on, basically all I'm wanting to do is dilute phosphate and nitrate levels on the FOWLR anyway.

mcmarkrazz · 02/27/2011, 08:19 AM

melt the ice in the winter on our walkway...2x5 gal buckets just thrown out the front door..summer just pour it off the deck on yard small amopunt has never been an issue with gilling the grass ect

mgraff00 · 02/27/2011, 10:27 AM

winter - used it to thaw snow/ice one the front walk

summer - will be using it to kill grass in the driveway

02/26/2011, 08:24 PM	#52
muttley000 MTS Sufferer! Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: NW Ohio Posts: 1,926	He uses his RO wastewater on the yard, not used saltwater. I use my old SPS water into a 100 gallon rubermaid I have some soft corals in. I use that water on a pair of small systems that are fish only and a pod grow out experiment. After that it goes into the drain that goes out to the ditch in the summer, and gets poured on the stone driveway in the winter. __________________ Next step on the system is adding A 90 gallon! Current Tank Info: 475 multitank system is now running! Several hundred gallons of additions planned!

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02/26/2011, 08:53 PM	#53
WXB Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 258	If you have a septic put it in your yard. I you live in the city the drain is just fine. If you rent and your landlord is a TOOL, WHO CARES RIGHT.

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mcmarkrazz Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: hawaii Posts: 17	melt the ice in the winter on our walkway...2x5 gal buckets just thrown out the front door..summer just pour it off the deck on yard small amopunt has never been an issue with gilling the grass ect

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mgraff00 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: southern ill Posts: 51	winter - used it to thaw snow/ice one the front walk summer - will be using it to kill grass in the driveway