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Water change bucket
I heard from my local source that I should be concerned with the type of bucket I use to mix my salt and water in for a water change. Apparently, there are a lot of buckets out there that are not saltwater safe and can actually leak their chemicals into the saltwater.
Anyone else heard of this?
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I never had. My LFS uses left over salt buckets. They gave me a couple to use. I have also used home depot buckets aswell with no apparent bad effects.
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Try to use buckets that are made from HDPE.....you should see the material listed on the bottom underside of your bucket.
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Whoops.. I meant to say the garbage pail I use to make my saltwater mix.
There is no writing on the bottom of it.
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yes this is common knowledge, a non-food grade bucket or trash can can leach it's chemicals. Brute trash cans from HD and lowes are food grade and is what I use to mix my saltwater and hold my topoff water.
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Brute trash buckets are definitely the way to go! For the money you can't beat the quality and ruggedness of the 20,30 & 55ga containers that are completely safe for us reefers (IMO)
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Anyone know about the Rubbermaid one?
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i recently purchased a tan 28 gallon container ant lowes for my saltwater mixing, it is not a brute. is this something i need to worry about?
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I went to my local source and yes, unless it is a brute, no other Rubbermaid container is certified to be used for salt water, UNLESS it is marked as "Food Container Safe"
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Well that's good to know. I thought they were two separate company.
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Beware of using anything that isn't food grade. Had a tank crash because of using roughneck container instead of brute (that's what I'm blaming it on, couldn't of beeen me).
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orange home depot 5 gal buckets work for me.. no strange deaths thus far..
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Most 5 gallon buckets that are sterile, never used for anything, are perfectly fine. Where people run into trouble is when they use other containers from the local big-box retailers The brutes are definitely the way to go IMO if you have the room. Even if you only have a 20 gallon tank, it's nice to know that you have two water changes sitting, ready if needed
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I use 55 gallon drums (food grade) purchased from a local grange. They work great.
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Very interesting comments.
I actually went out and bought me a Rubbermaid Brute, and I looked at the bottom. It says it's LDPE, but it IS a "Food Safe Container." Wonder if there is any difference really.
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HDPE=High Density Polyethelene
LDPE=Low "" "" Quite possibly a spelling error or two in this post. Jason
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