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06/08/2011, 11:49 AM
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What is the best storage container for RO water?
Anyone want to chime in?
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06/08/2011, 11:56 AM
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Brute trash can.
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06/08/2011, 11:57 AM
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They don't leach any chemicals?
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06/08/2011, 11:59 AM
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No sir. I got mine at Home Depot. Lowes did not carry them.
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06/08/2011, 11:59 AM
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No the brutes are FDA approved food safe. The plastic is completely inert as most plastics are.
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06/08/2011, 12:00 PM
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Would you say better than the blue polyethylene barrels?
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<--That's my boy! To see my tank, click the...Oh wait! Where did it go? Current Tank Info: 75 gallon display, 20 gallon sump/refugium, 6X54W T5, ASM G2, Mag 9.5 return, 2X Gulf Stream II Maxi-Jet Mods |
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06/08/2011, 12:01 PM
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Waterever you use just make sure it's foodsafe grade!
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06/08/2011, 12:06 PM
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How can I tell?
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<--That's my boy! To see my tank, click the...Oh wait! Where did it go? Current Tank Info: 75 gallon display, 20 gallon sump/refugium, 6X54W T5, ASM G2, Mag 9.5 return, 2X Gulf Stream II Maxi-Jet Mods |
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06/08/2011, 12:52 PM
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 In general, recycling symbols of 1, 2 and 5 are food safe. Or just get the same 32 or 44 gallon Brute garbage can from Home Depot, along with the rollers, that everyone else in the hobby has used forever. Jeff |
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06/08/2011, 01:43 PM
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Brute's now state on the lids what colors are food safe, it's gray, white and something else, I think yellow?
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06/08/2011, 01:55 PM
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I'm not sure it's worth worrying about that much in the first place. Animals in an aquarium (save maybe institutional aquaria with very large animals) aren't going to live long enough to make long term low-level exposure to plasticizers much of an issue. By all means use the food safe stuff though, if only to minimize production of the nasty ones.
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06/08/2011, 02:26 PM
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I guess it depends on how much you want to store. I have a small tank and use 6 five gallon food safe water jugs that I get from fleet farm for $6 each. I didn't have room for a brute can.
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06/08/2011, 02:26 PM
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What I believe is the real concern is the concentration of trace chemicals that could have an impact on the health of our most sensitive inverts and corals. Of course water changes should handle these issues.
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06/08/2011, 03:02 PM
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I use 12 of the 44 gallon Brute cans for various parts of my system (RO/DI water, limewater, salt water, sumps, and refugia) and consider them a good choice.
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06/08/2011, 05:04 PM
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^
 you have a 44 Gallon Brute can for every 10 gallons of display tank volume?! Nice and prepared.
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06/08/2011, 06:29 PM
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Thanks everyone!
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06/08/2011, 07:52 PM
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Brute trash can with the rollers
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