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rcreations
Guest
Is it safe to dump dirty salt water (from water changes) in the sink? Or is it better to dump it outside?
alienhybridx
Member
i dump mine in the sink or sometimes in the toilet and flush it down
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rcreations
Guest
Reason I ask is because I read that it's bad for the pipes because of the salt buildup. But I would think the running water would wash that off.
alienhybridx
Member
i've been doing it through the sink for at least a month no problems...i usually let freshwater run down the pipes for a good minute i dont see why it would create problems
sepulatian
Moderator
I dump mine out side, not for pipe reasons, I just do. I always have.
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rcreations
Guest
Thanks! Sounds like it's fairly safe to dump the dirty water in the sink.
digitydash
Active Member
I feed my palm trees with it and they love it
Your in Ohio though so I don't think you have any of them their.
i havd been dumping it down the toilet forever and so far no problems
macchicks
New Member
Originally Posted by MichaelTX
http:///forum/post/2562275
the only time its really not advised is when you are on a septic tank with a large amount of SW. it can kill the bacteria in the septic system.
Mike
Thank you for this answer as it may not pertain to a lot of people but it does to me. I would never thought to ask.
http:///forum/post/2562275
the only time its really not advised is when you are on a septic tank with a large amount of SW. it can kill the bacteria in the septic system.
Mike
Thank you for this answer as it may not pertain to a lot of people but it does to me. I would never thought to ask.
socal57che
Active Member
I dump mine in the sewer drain. If you get close enough to the beach the drains are marked "CLEAN WATER ONLY - DRAINS INTO OCEAN" so I wonder about this practice. We are not allowed to have any (well a couple, but no lfs carries them) caulerpa so that isn't an issue, but I wonder how much life survives to make it back "home."
michaeltx
Moderator
another good point if you system goes into the ocean dont put it in the drains for that reason. alot of it will make it back to the ocean and even though its SW stuff its usually from a different region and that region may not be able to fight off the diseases or parasites or even be abl to eat algaes and stuff.
Mike
Mike
perfectdark
Active Member
Another note about septic sytems and this is geared more towards large quantities, but still may have an affect on smaller more frequent quantities too. But If your leech field is under anything you want to grow on top of it you may want to rethink putting SW in your system. The salt run off into the leech field can kill anything it saturates. And if your septic system is made out of concrete, salt eats away concrete, so that my have an effect too at some point.
srfisher17
Active Member
Bottle it and sell it at Wal-Mart; they sell millions of gallons of tap water; bottled by Coke & Pepsi. People will buy anything. (Label it "mineral enriched", salt mix is full of different minerals).
michaeltx
Moderator
yeah they do that was a big thing recently.
there was a talk show in the other day where people would only buy bottled water and swore that they could tell bottled to tap. they selceted 3 people and told them the water water peach flavor etc.. from france and germany and iceland and had them taste and rate the water. they all chose different ones as the best tasting and none said it was tap water. They had filled these bottles with tap water nothing more but because of marketing they thought it tasted different than it realy was.
kinda interesting how marketing can get you sucked into this is better than that.
Mike
there was a talk show in the other day where people would only buy bottled water and swore that they could tell bottled to tap. they selceted 3 people and told them the water water peach flavor etc.. from france and germany and iceland and had them taste and rate the water. they all chose different ones as the best tasting and none said it was tap water. They had filled these bottles with tap water nothing more but because of marketing they thought it tasted different than it realy was.
kinda interesting how marketing can get you sucked into this is better than that.
Mike
srfisher17
Active Member
Isn't "Evian" one of the big "gourmet water" (what an oxymoron) brands? Evian spelled backwards is "naive", co-incidence?