where do you pour your old water

[plack]

With a larger tank pouring wastewater down the drain may corrode the sewer pipes unless flushed but how much water to flush out say 40 gallons dumped ? or do you dump it out to the street by an underground pvc pipe coming/empting next to the street sewer ? Paul

 

[shallowreef]

I just dump mine outside where ever i see weeds and stuff. Lately i just dump it on the drive way and with the heat of the drive way it normally just evaporates in an hour or so.

 

[MCary]

Down the drain. PVC doesn't corrode and a couple of flushes should clean out the cast iron, and with all the frozen burrittos I eat, there's lots of flushes.

 

[Little Luey]

Down the drain. I think there are other more corosive fluids getting flushed in the drain system.

 

[joshinjosh]

into the forest behind my house

 

[shallowreef]

with all the frozen burrittos I eat, there's lots of flushes.

LMFAO!!

I had to read that twice to make sure i wasn't reading that wrong.

 

[Electrokate]

I use some of it to grow out macros for the LFS cred, some to grow out brine shrimp on the deck for fish food, and sometimes I use it to kill weeds on a bricked area out back. Problem with using it on the actual lawn is that it remains and will stunt or kill grass for a while. Putting it in storm drains is bad because in my case I am at the top of a hill and the drain empties into puget sound, who knows what problems that could cause. I hatch brine shrimp daily too, so remove tank water to do that and then top off.

This is a great time to grow the brine shrimp out, the weather is good til probably October. I put them in a large fish styro and have a sheet of acrylic to cover it if there is a lot of rain. There are also rotifers in it. Sometimes it gets so thick it's unbelievable. You can paint the outside of the fish box or put it in a cedar frame if the family thinks it's ugly. I use painted fish boxes for planters out front where the sun would beat down on a ceramic one and cook the soil.
Kate

 

[shallowreef]

Very smart idea Kate.

 

[Scooterman]

I just dump mine in the neighbors yard.

 

[shallowreef]

Yet another good idea!

 

[zenn]

really not worried about it corroding my drains...i just flush it down the toilet.

 

[jdougal]

I rent the place I live in and don't care too much about the pipes so down the toilet it goes.

 

[mungus]

really not worried about it corroding my drains...i just flush it down the toilet.

I do the same

Brian

 

[james734]

into the utility sink. PVC pipe, so no worries of corroding pips.

 

[snobanker]

I usually just spill it all over my floor....jk....I dump in in the weedbed

 

[plack]

Great Ideas thank you all

I love the growing brine shrimp and rotifiers thing is there anything that can become harmfull like dead brine shrimp decaying and or other things I should check for as I have never done that and heard someone tell me it was a mess and not that easy but i don't remember why, at the time I was'nt thinking of ever doing this?

 

[wrightme43]

In the street or down a storm drain if there is one where I am working. Its KY so nothing is going to make it here.

 

[bubble puffer]

Just flush or drain into the Gopher Hole...

 

[Aquatic Guru]

I live in an apartment. So it goes down the toilet and there is a laundry sink in the laundry room and sometimes down there.

Might be a good idea to turn the water into Shark Finn Broth???

 

[Krish]

I pour mine in the toliet